Our article aims at refocusing the debate in privilege studies from tackling the invisibility to challenging justifications of gender privilege. Focusing on instances in which men acknowledge that they receive preferential treatment, this study sheds light on how privilege is perceived and talked about in interviews with men in female-dominated occupations. In contrast to existing literature on the invisibility of privilege to the privileged, our analysis shows that the privileging of men is indeed known to them. However, our interviewees then employ specific discursive strategies to actively reframe and thereby silence privilege. They either justify privilege as an individual achievement or as a natural advantage of male bodies. In our discussion, we show how these discursive reframings build on existing discourses on gendered bodies and neoliberal subjectivity. Based on our key argument that gendered privilege is not invisible, but it is acknowledged and then actively reframed and thereby silenced, we argue for expanding the focus of privilege studies: Instead of primarily investing in making privilege visible to those who have it, we need to challenge the discourses that allow for reframing and silencing it.

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重新审视男性特权：女性主导职业中的男性如何注意到并积极重构特权

我们的文章旨在重新聚焦特权研究中的辩论，从解决不可见性问题到挑战性别特权的理由。本研究关注男性承认他们获得优惠待遇的情况，揭示了在与女性主导职业的男性访谈中如何看待和谈论特权。与现有关于特权对特权不可见的文献相比，我们的分析表明，他们确实了解男性的特权。然而，我们的受访者随后采用特定的话语策略来积极重构，从而使特权沉默。他们要么将特权视为个人成就，要么将其视为男性身体的自然优势。在我们的讨论中，我们展示了这些话语重构如何建立在关于性别身体和新自由主义主体性的现有话语之上。基于我们的关键论点，即性别特权不是不可见的，但它被承认，然后被积极地重构，从而沉默，我们主张扩大特权研究的重点：与其主要投资于让特权对那些拥有特权的人可见，我们需要挑战允许重构和沉默它的话语。