Blokus domesticus: The sensitive new age guy in Australia

McMahon, Anthony

doi:10.1080/14443059809387369

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“…There has been much public and academic debate about the emergence of the "new man" and how different from traditional models of masculinity he really is (McMahon 1998). Evidence of changing masculinities is reflected in the popularity of media offering wider ranging and more feminized versions of the male self.…”

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“Sensitive and Real Macho All at the Same Time”

Allen

2007

Men and Masculinities

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What is the place of romance in young men's lives? Do young men enact a romantic masculinity? This article examines young men's experience of romance and what investments they have in romantic identity. Drawing on a New Zealand—based sample of seventeen-to nineteen-year-olds, the author investigates the way in which romantic masculinity is evoked during seventeen focus-group discussions. The article explores whether romantic masculinity offers a new form of masculinity in New Zealand and to what extent it departs from hegemonic practices of “hard” masculinity. Its potential as a nonhegemonic form of masculinity that challenges oppressive heterosexual relations is also analyzed. It is argued that the particular expression of romantic masculinity evidenced in this research no longer constitutes a subordinate form of masculinity in New Zealand. Instead, “doing romance” is theorized as being reconfigured within the operation of hegemonic masculinity in a way that highlights the flexibility and stability of these practices of power.

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“Sensitive and Real Macho All at the Same Time”

Allen

2007

Men and Masculinities

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“…He has created a series of representation that not only instantiate his desired other but also his identity as a sensitive new age man. Domestic activities such as cooking, cleaning up dishes, and buying bedsheets and the act of sharing these with his potential other construe features of this sensitive man (McMahon, 1998). Doing activities traditionally associated with feminine persona can be read as his strategy for affiliating with women.…”

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Identity in Online Personal Ads: A Multimodal Investigation

Bakar¹

2015

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A personal advertisement constitutes a distinct form related to the small ad family of genres. While small ads traditionally offer an object or a service, the personal ad offers but, most essentially, seeks a romantic partner. To date, studies of personal ads have mainly focused on patterns of represented traits in relation to identity, gender, age and sexuality in the verbal text. Given the self-promotional nature of the genre, image is also a powerful tool used as one of the resources for representing identity and engaging with others. Using social semiotic perspective and the framework of systemic functional linguistics, this study focuses on how identity is verbally and visually realised in online personal ads. This paper has two aims: the first is to show how resources from verbal and visual systems combine and complement one another to construe a variety of personal and social traits, clustering into different identity types. The second is to indicate the usefulness of these descriptions in facilitating a multimodal approach to the analysis of identity. The results revealed a convergence of verbal and visual resources in identity performances, construing the slim and attractive woman and the funny but sensitive guy, both aimed at invoking interest from potential partners. Identities emerged through the use of nominal groups and processes and the categorizations associated with these resources. Images that are displayed on the profile pages contain features that correspond to the tendered traits in the verbal description creating a holistic performance of online identities.

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“…The number of women participating in paid employment in industrialized countries began to climb in the 1960s and 1970s and continued to climb throughout the 1980s and 1990s (Hannah & Quarter, 1992;Messias et al, 1997;Uttal, 1996). Women have moved into the traditionally-male domain of paid employment at a faster rate than men have moved into the traditionally-female domain of household work (Arrighi & Maume, 2000;Kane & Sanchez, 1994;Marsiglio, 1993;McMahon, 1998;Risman & Johnson-Sumerford, 1998;Shelton, 1992). Regardless of their participation in paid employment, women remain responsible for the majority of household work (Baxter, 1997;Bittman, 1999;Hannah & Quarter, 1992;Hochschild, 1989;Major, 1993;Robinson & Milkie, 1998;Shelton, 1992).…”

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“…The current culture or rhetoric of fatherhood talks about a new conduct of fathers, that is, father as nurturer. The "new father" is an involved and active participant in the daily care of his children (Daly, 1993(Daly, , 1994LaRossa, 1988;McMahon, 1998). But scholars suggest that these cultural images of fatherhood and the conduct of fatherhood, that is, what fathers actually do, are asynchronous (Atkinson & Blackwelder, 1993;Daly, 1994;LaRossa 1988;McMahon, 1998).…”

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“…The "new father" is an involved and active participant in the daily care of his children (Daly, 1993(Daly, , 1994LaRossa, 1988;McMahon, 1998). But scholars suggest that these cultural images of fatherhood and the conduct of fatherhood, that is, what fathers actually do, are asynchronous (Atkinson & Blackwelder, 1993;Daly, 1994;LaRossa 1988;McMahon, 1998). Across all social classes, and even in the upper-middle class where the rhetoric of the "new father" is firmly established, fathers' actions have not followed their words (Atkinson & Blackwelder, 1993;LaRossa, 1988;McMahon, 1998).…”

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