Feminist masculinities: The end of gender as we know it.

Silverstein, Louise B.

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“…Nevertheless, we use three meta-theoretical perspectives as analytic frames to examine the five domains–feminism, social constructionism, and intersectionality. Our emphasis on feminism necessitates attention to men’s privileges and how masculinities reflect inequities in gender relations (Flood & Pease, 2005; Silverstein, 2016). The influence of feminism on the study of masculinities is embedded in the sociological notion of hegemonic masculinity (Connell, 1995; Wedgwood, 2009), which refers to a set of social practices that embodies the most honored way of being men and boys and reflects men’s domination over women and other men (Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005).…”

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“…Second, throughout this article, we have stressed the value of feminist, social constructionist, and intersectional perspectives in the study of masculinities (Addis et al, 2016; Crenshaw, 2017; Silverstein, 2016). These perspectives clarify the hierarchical (feminism), interlocking (intersectionality), and dynamic (social constructionist) features of masculinities.…”

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Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.

Wong¹,

Wang²

2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Despite advances in the psychological study of masculinities, the term "masculinity" or "masculinities" has been conceptualized differently across diverse theoretical approaches. To address these challenges, this article seeks to integrate the myriad ways that masculinities have been studied by scholars. Drawing on scholarship from various fields, the authors delineate fived domains of masculinities-self-ascribed, other-ascribed, situational, performative, and macro masculinities. Reflecting an integration of these five domains, masculinities are conceived as the constellation of cultural and individual meanings attached to men and boys that are (a) attributed to the self as well as to (b) people, concepts, and objects; (c) embedded in situational cues; (d) performed as social practices; and (e) distributed through ecological influences. The authors propose a framework that pieces together these domains of masculinities, describes how they differ in their stability and proximity of influence on people's lives, and explicates their linkages with each other. Finally, the authors explain how the framework and the five domains can guide future psychological research and practice. Public Significance StatementThis article provides a definition of masculinities by integrating scholarship from different fields of study. The authors describe five domains of masculinities that can guide future research and practice.

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Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.

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2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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“…However, this dichotomy of poststructural–qualitative and positivist–quantitative is too simplistic. Quantitative research can also achieve poststructural goals such as correcting stereotypes and deconstructing gender (for a more extensive discussion of how multiple methodologies can be used to study masculinities from a poststructural perspective, see Silverstein, in press). For example, Gates, Badgett, Macomber, and Chambers (2007) used a quantitative national survey to explore the question of whether gay men wanted to have children.…”

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“…She challenged the idea that sex, gender, and body type were linked, that is, that masculinity or femininity was necessarily tied to male or female bodies. This postmodern stance has been popular for analyzing gender in Europe and Australia but has emerged relatively recently in the study of men and masculinity in the United States (see, e.g., Addis, Mansfield, & Syzdek, 2010; Silverstein, in press).…”

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Theoretical given or research artifact? Comment on Wetherell and Edley (2014).

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2014

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In this commentary, I agree with Wetherell and Edley (2014) that discursive psychology has the potential to make an important contribution to the study of men and masculinity. However, I disagree with their juxtaposition of discursive psychology as being grounded in postmodernism, in contrast to the gender role strain paradigm that they characterize as emerging from a positivist theoretical perspective. I argue that the theoretical paradigm of gender role strain also represents a postmodern perspective, but that the questions that most of the researchers studying its expression have chosen to explore reflect a positivist methodology. Given this extensive body of research, it is easy to imagine that this positivist framework of quantitative research reflects an equivalent positivist theoretical perspective. I then demonstrate that gender role strain has also generated postmodern research by describing qualitative studies from the Yeshiva Fatherhood Project aimed at exploring the diversity, inconsistency, and fluidity of fathering identities.

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Feminist masculinities: The end of gender as we know it.

Abstract: Special thanks to Carmen Lalonde, graduate student extraordinaire, for her tireless editorial help and her consultation about all things trans.

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Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.

Toward an integrative psychology of masculinities.

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