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Young Men and Feminism: Gendered Struggle and Sense-Making for Australian University Students Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jessica Kean, Denise Buiten
This paper explores feminism as a site of explicit struggle and implicit sense-making for young men. Through an analysis of interviews with twenty young people at two Australian universities, it considers how popularised feminist (and anti-feminist) discourses shape discussions of men, boys and masculinity. Actively grappling with the place of boys and men in certain high-profile feminist debates,
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Book Review: On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Trevor Auldridge-Reveles
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Book Review: Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Héctor Carrillo
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Book Review: Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jonathan Ibarra
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Working-Class Masculinity and Status Maneuvering: Relational Construction of Migrants’ Masculinity Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Md Abdus Sabur
This study focuses on the relational construction of masculinity, specifically on intra-group interactions, relational resources, and interactional accountability among co-ethnic migrant men with shared class backgrounds. Through participant observation and interviews with 72 migrant men, the research uncovers how these men engage in status maneuvering. This process involves the strategic adaption
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Later-Life Masculinities: (Re)forming the Gendered Lives of Older Men Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gareth M. Thomas, Thomas Thurnell-Read
Older men are often treated as homogenous, a-gendered, and unmasculine. Drawing on 52 interviews with older men who play walking football in the UK, we explore how their experiences can be understood through a lens of masculinity. Men claimed that walking football offers an outlet for both competition and displaying physical prowess. Their embodied performances were crucial for cultivating a masculine
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“Korean Women All Make Bad Wives”: Misogyny and Nationalism in Online Discourses Promoting Interracial Relationships Between Korean Men and White Women Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Min Joo Lee
South Korea, which has, for a long time, prided itself as a mono-racial nation, is experiencing a significant shift in its demographic from racial homogeneity to multi-raciality. Such change is fueled by the rise in interracial relationships between Korean men and non-Korean women. In this article, I address the question: How are Korean masculinity and national identity reconceptualized through interracial
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Learning to Care: Men’s Parental Caregiving for Sons and Daughters in Peru Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Julio Villa-Palomino
Research on men performing care has become a critical site to explore changes in masculinities. While studies have focused on caring masculinities, Stay-at-home-fathers, and involved fathers in the Global North, this study explores how Peruvian men conceive and perform care. While gender systems and relations in Latin America are changing, the involvement of men as caregivers has not yet been incorporated
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Governing Bodies Through Water: Turning Boys Into Men and Reducing Bodies to Biology Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Amanda Domingues
Drownproofing, a swimming technique focused on the prevention of drowning, became popular in the United States in the mid-twentieth century. Although women performed better in drownproofing, they still had to conform to masculine standards, methods, and expectations. In this article, I explain why drownproofing instructors used masculine standards to teach a technique in which women performed better
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Remaking the Myth of the ‘Trade Warrior’: Searching for South Korean Masculinity in the Philippines Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Dohye Kim
This study explores South Korean middle-aged businessmen, mainly in their 50s and 60s, who migrated to the Philippines to boost their socio-economic status and eventually recuperate their masculine identities. By examining how the Korean men’s assumption about where and how they can redeem their masculine identity was made, this research extends the notion of transnational business masculinity in three
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A Missing Piece? Men and the Puzzle of Gender Mainstreaming in the European Union. Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Elaine Weiner
In its early uptake and sweeping application of gender mainstreaming, the European Union (EU) sits in the vanguard. However, bringing a gender perspective to bear on policy has proven a stubborn challenge. Drawing on Bacchi's "What's the Problem Represented to Be?" approach and her conceptualization of policies as gendering practices, I critically interrogate how men have been implicated in the problem
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The Social Stigmatization of Stay-at-Home Fathers in Pakistan Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Rahat Shah
The stigmatization of stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) has been widely studied, but little research has examined how these experiences vary between rural and urban areas. In this qualitative study, 20 ...
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Decolonizing Care: Hegemonic Masculinity, Caring Masculinities and the Material Configurations of Care Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Anoop Nayak
Care is a global issue of critical importance in the formation of masculinities. The paper argues for a need to ‘decolonize’ and ‘degender’ care. In dialogue with Connell’s ‘hegemonic masculinity’,...
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Prison Masculinities, Trauma and Incarcerated Young Men Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Carla Cesaroni, Matthew Maycock, Nina Vaswani
The current article is part of a unique comparative study of the experiences and adjustment of 190 incarcerated young men in both Scotland and Canada. In collecting data on the participants’ lives,...
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“To be Good as a Manager”: Masculinities and Everyday Life Within Transnational Corporations in Colombia and Ecuador//“Ser bueno como gerente”: Masculinidades y vida cotidiana en corporaciones transnacionales en Colombia y Ecuador Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Pilar Sánchez Voelkl
This article examines the role of homosociality in the definition of power hierarchies within transnational corporations and the ways by which these firms control the sexual life of their managers ...
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Neocolonial masculinities in Costa Rica: an analytical proposal Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Mauricio Menjívar Ochoa
The article explains the concept of neocolonial masculinities. It aims to understand the practice of mestizo and white men in their contact, as agents of the State, with indigenous people. The thre...
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Juggling Masculinities: Being a Middle-Class Young Man in Dhaka Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Suborna Camellia, Rahil Roodsaz
To date, South Asian masculinity studies have largely investigated the construction of masculinities at the structural level, while subjective experiences have received little attention. This paper...
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A Dialectic of Vulnerability and Resilience: Nonresidential Fathers Living in Poverty in Israel Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Lital Yona, Yochay Nadan
The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of poverty-stricken Israeli nonresidential fathers raising their children in a disadvantaged neighborhood characterized by poverty and hardship....
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“I Am Not a Macho, I Am a Man”:Identity Construction of Trans Men in Santiago, Chile Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Samantha Gonzalez, Margarita Bernales
The study of masculinities in Latin-American is becoming increasingly relevant; however, trans men (TM) have been highly disregarded. This is problematic, given that the transmasculine population c...
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Building a Gender Equality Agenda for Mexico Focused on Men Construyendo Para México Una Agenda de Igualdad de Género Enfocada en los Hombres Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Juan Carlos Ramirez-Rodriguez, Norma Celina Gutiérrez-de-la-Torre
The aim of this work is to show the elements required for building a public policy agenda that will incorporate men in the construction of gender equality. It is based on multimethod and multi-stag...
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The Participation of the Private Sector in Achieving Gender Equality: How Working With Men Can Promote Shared Responsibility Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Mauro A. Vargas Urías
The goal of this essay is to contribute to the study of public policies, specifically those oriented towards the promotion of shared responsibility between men and women in care work, both from a h...
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The Strength to Diet: If it Fits Your Macros Dieting as Masculine Body Work Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Warren Jensen
Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of 76 “day of eating” vlogs, this article explores how cis men adhering to the “If It Fits Your Macros” diet dynamically negotiate the meanings of their ea...
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So You Think You Can Parent: Twitter Users’ Responses to Single Father Tropes in Television’s Single Parents Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Laurena Bernabo, Jennifer Turchi
As the U.S. single-father population expands, we explore how fans of Single Parents (ABC, 2018–2020) responded to its three single-father characters, each of whom evoke a distinct trope. Viewers us...
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Living With Violence: Men University Students Negotiate the Masculinity Mandate in Mexico Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Alí Siles-Bárcenas
The literature on men and masculinities has established a clear and complex link between masculinity and violence. I contribute to the study of that link by exploring the relationship that men stud...
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Masculinities and Public Policies in Latin America Masculinidades y Políticas Públicas en América Latina Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-21 Francisco Aguayo
Examples of public policies in four domains are presented that are useful in understanding policies around masculinity in Latin America: a) childrearing and childcare; b) the field of men’s health;...
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The Colors of Masculinity: Experiences of Power and Intersectionality in Nuestra América Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Mara Viveros Vigoya
This article proposes that masculinity in Colombia can be better understood by examining the extent to which masculine norms, positions, and identities are relative and shaped by the interactions b...
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Reflexive, Ambivalent and Inclusive. Masculinities Among Young University Students in Lima, Peru Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Norma Fuller
This research contrasts the responses of two generations of young Peruvian university students to the demands of women’s movements and TLGBIQ collectives. It concludes that the millennial generatio...
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Father-Child (dis)connections: Expectations and Practices of Young un(der)employed Fathers in Johannesburg Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Hannah Joy Dawson
Despite a growing body of research on fathers and fatherhood in South Africa, we know relatively little about un(der)employed Black fathers’ experiences, perspectives and patterns of involvement in...
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Men’s Violence Prevention and Peace Education: Drawing on Galtung to Explore the Plurality of Violence(s), Peace(s), and Masculinities Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 William W. McInerney, David Tim Archer
This article examines a concern that some programs engaging men in the prevention of violence against women use overly homogenized conceptions of violence. In response, the authors draw on their ex...
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“I’m Trying to be There for my Kids”: A Needs Analysis of Fathers Who Experience Health Inequities in Vancouver, Canada Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Francine E. Darroch, John L. Oliffe, Gabriela Gonzalez Montaner, Jessica M. Webb
To better understand the needs of fathers who experience health inequities, we individually interviewed fathers, mothers, and service providers about their perspectives of supports for men in Vanco...
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Connecting Australian Masculinities and Culture to Mental Health: Men’s Perspectives and Experiences Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Paul Sharp, John L. Oliffe, Joan L. Bottorff, Simon M. Rice, Nico Schulenkorf, Cristina M. Caperchione
Masculinities and culture are intertwined and have significant implications for men’s mental health. This study aimed to explore influences of Australian masculinities and culture on men’s mental h...
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Pathways and Patterns for Communication With Intimate Partners: Men’s Retrospectives After a Relationship Breakdown Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 John L. Oliffe, Mary T. Kelly, Gabriela Gonzalez Montaner, Zac E. Seidler, John S. Ogrodniczuk, David Kealy, Simon M. Rice
Effective communication is key to the quality of men’s intimate partner relationships. The current study examines men’s pathways and patterns for communication with intimate partners. Based on inte...
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Hockey Dads, Party Boys and Devoted Players? Digital Representations of Men and Masculinities Amongst Norwegian and Swedish Ice Hockey Players Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Anne Tjønndal, Frida Austmo Wågan, Daniel Alsarve
Men’s elite ice hockey is one of the most commercialised, popular and patriarchal sports in the global north. With reference to the scarce corpus of ice hockey research from non-American countries,...
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Transamorous Misogyny: Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Cis Men’s Sexist Desires for Trans Women Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Brandon Andrew Robinson
Little sociological research has examined how cis people might be accepting or not of trans people on an intimate level. To begin to fill this gap, the author analyzes over 200 online discussion bo...
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Race, Class, and Masculinities in a South African Primary School Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Diloshini Govender, Deevia Bhana
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines how 8–9-year-old South African boys construct and negotiate heterosexual masculinities in the primary school. Situated within a racially div...
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Doing Respectable Heteromasculinities in Boys and Young Men’s Interview Talk on Sexual Encounters Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Timo Aho, Marja Peltola
Recent studies on boys and young men’s heterosexual practices point in contradictory directions. On the one hand, boys and young men seem to be placing less value on “hard”, overtly aggressive masc...
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Boy, You Fight Like a Woman … Representations of Defeated Enemies, Boys and Male Nudity in the Late Bronze Age Aegean Iconography and Their Role in the Expression of Masculinity Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Filip Franković, Uroš Matić
This paper examines depictions of male nudity, flaccid penises and phalli (erect penises) attested in the representations of boys, defeated warriors and figures of authority in the Late Bronze Age ...
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Indigenous and Settler Understandings for Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Australia: The Significance of a De-colonial Approach Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Amanda Keddie
Addressing the gendered dimensions of family violence remains a key focus in the primary prevention of violence against women (PVAW) in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian communities. What is...
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Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of U.S. Drone Operators Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Thomas Ærvold Bjerre
Drones have become the new face of American warfare, challenging institutional and cultural norms about what it means to be a soldier. In the context of military masculinities, I examine the repres...
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The Exonerating “Guise of Brotherhood”: Intra-Fraternal Sexual Violence Survivors’ Accounts of Illegibility and Impunity Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 David Fishman, Laura Beth Nielsen, Sino Esthappan
Greek life in American colleges and universities is characterized by white hetero-masculine dominance. A large scholarship has documented Greek life’s association with women’s sexual violence, yet ...
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Fighting for Masculine Hegemony: Contestation Between Alt-Right and White Nationalist Masculinities on Stormfront.org Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Jillian Sunderland
The alt-right community serves as a gateway into the white nationalist movement. However, more research is needed on how the alt-right’s virulent misogyny interfaces with white nationalist masculin...
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Masculinity for Sale: Shan Migrant Men Sex Workers in Thailand and Questions of Identity Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Amporn Jirattikorn, Arunrat Tangmunkongvorakul, Arratee Ayuttacorn
The portion of sex industry in Thailand involving same-gender sex between men has recently seen a shift to a predominantly migrant workforce, particularly in northern Thailand. The majority of men ...
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“Zero Emission, Zero Compromises”: An Intersectional, Qualitative Exploration of Masculinities in Tesla’s Consumer Stories Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Matteo Vivi, Anne-Mette Hermans
In light of gendered dynamics complicating masculine adoption of self-driving and electric vehicles (EV), we examine how Tesla’s video consumer stories envision masculinities within sociotechnical ...
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Factors Influencing Lifetime Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Among Ever-Partnered Men in South Sudan Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Mohammad Khalaf, Manuel Contreras-Urbina, Maureen Murphy, Mary Ellsberg
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Research has shown that gender inequitable attitudes, economic stressors, and armed conflict are ...
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Masculinity and Marriage: Interrogating Possession Among Velichappads of Kerala Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Gayatri Balu
The paper explores the everyday gendered lives of men Velichappads. The focus is on understanding imprint of rituals ofpossession beyond the space of enactment to the everyday social and material l...
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On Power’s Doorstep: Gays, Jews, and Liminal Complicity in Reproducing Masculine Domination Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Andrew J. Shapiro
This article explores the gender complexities of men caught between social power and powerlessness. Specifically, I consider the cases of Jewish men and gay men in the late modern West, two demogra...
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Book Review: Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Umair Rasheed
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Book Review: It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Jennifer Randles
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“Omelora”: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Uchechukwu P. Umezurike
This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name
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Hierarchies of Masculinity and Lad Culture on Campus: Bad Guys, Good Guys and Complicit Men Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Ana Jordan, Sundari Anitha, Jill Jameson, Zowie Davy
Research on ‘lad culture’ and gender-based violence (GBV) in student communities has examined ‘hypermasculine’ gender performances, with little attention paid to hierarchies of masculinity. We explore ‘lad culture’ by analysing qualitative, in-depth interviews with students. Our findings challenge simplistic constructions of ‘good guys’ as allies/protectors in opposition to hypermasculinised, deviant
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Caring Masculinities and Race: On Racialized Workers and “New Fathers” Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Riikka Prattes
Karla Elliott defines caring masculinities as both embracing care and rejecting domination. Most work within critical studies on men and masculinities that engages with masculinities and care focuses on care yet sidelines non-domination. In order for caring masculinities to not be/come a “white” concept, this article argues for a broad grounding of caring masculinities in a rejection of all forms of
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Hybrid Masculinities and The Limits of Anti-Violence Efforts in BDSM Communities Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Cierra R. Sorin
This article interrogates the gendered consequences of men’s anti-violence work in pansexual BDSM communities. Based on interview data from BDSM practitioners, I demonstrate empirically that Bridges and Pascoe's heuristic split of hybrid masculine practices—strategic borrowing, discursive distancing, and boundary fortification—does not account for the necessary interrelationship of these practices
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How to Be a Man Differently: Intersectionality of Gender and Disability in the Life Course of a Powerchair Athlete Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Laurent Paccaud, Anne Marcellini
This article focuses on the intersection of gender, dis/ability and other social forces in the life course of a young man who has had physical impairments from an early age. Drawing on interactionist theories and applying an ethnographic approach, we analyze the life experiences taking place in multiple social spheres throughout the life phases of Simon, a Swiss powerchair hockey player with cerebral
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Book Review: Home and Community for Queer Men of Color: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 J. A. Terrell
The edited volume Home and Community for Queer Men of Color: The Intersection of Race and Sexuality interrogates the meanings and makings of “home” among non-white queer men by seeking to fully explicate how race, racism, and heterosexism operate within communities. Each chapter pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the intersections of race and sexuality by not only identifying the existence
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Hunting in a Hostile Climate?: Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity on a Hunting Message Board Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Danielle J. Lindemann, Anna Doggett, Sharon Getsis
Based on prior research about other male-dominated leisure pursuits, we might expect game hunting to present a hostile climate for its women participants. However, our qualitative analysis of 293 threads posted between 2005 and 2019 on an online hunting message board suggests that women were welcomed within the pastime. While they did not overtly exclude women from their ranks, however, posters curated
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Book Review: Appealing Because He is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Warren Jensen
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Masculine Maneuvers: Male Baton Twirlers, Compensatory Manhood Acts, and Hybrid Masculinity Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Trenton M. Haltom
Men in women-dominated or feminized spaces use masculinizing strategies to circumvent stigma, yet this scholarship largely ignores sports which limits insights into how masculinity operates across social contexts. Drawing parallels from men’s experiences in other women-dominated settings, I address this gap by investigating how and to what end men in baton twirling “maneuver” masculinities. Using 30
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“The Model Man:” Shifting Perceptions of Asian American Masculinity and the Renegotiation of a Racial Hierarchy of Desire Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-11-14 Kelly H Chong, Nadia Y Kim
Although Asian-descent men in the United States have been subjected to negative race-gender stereotyping and sexual racism, evidence suggests that mainstream perceptions and Asian American men’s self-definitions are in flux. Drawing on in-depth interviews of U.S.-born and -raised, middle-class, heterosexual Asian American men, supplemented by popular media textual analysis, we examine how these men
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Societal Views of Surrogacy—Responding and Reframing: Gay Israeli Fathers Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Maya Tsfati, Adital Ben-Ari
The present study aims to explore gay Israeli fathers’ responses and resistance to societal criticism on their decision to become parents through transnational surrogacy. The authors interviewed 39 Israeli gay men who became parents via transnational gestational surrogacy using in-depth, semistructured interviews. Analysis of the interviews suggest that the gay fathers responded to societal perceptions
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“Professionals, Merchants, and Industrialists Unite!” Middle-Class Masculinities, Subjectivities, and Nationhood, Chile 1932–1952 Men and Masculinities (IF 2.509) Pub Date : 2021-10-05 Claudia Stern
This article focuses on the formation of the masculine ethos of the middle classes in Chile as a result of their experience in the public sphere and covers the period between 1932 and 1952. The study is based on a discourse analysis of Acción Pública, a middle-class weekly; ANEF magazine, issued by the Asociación Nacional de Empleados Fiscales (Chile’s National Association of Public Servants, ANEF);