Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men

Nye, Robert A.

doi:10.1086/426799

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“…Masculinities are learned; transmitted from older to younger men "by the force of personal example" (Nye 2005(Nye , p. 1951) and a rigid boy code to keep emotions in check (Pollack and Shuster 2000). In the early 1900s in the U.S., organized sports were popularized and Boy Scouts of America was founded so that men could instill true manliness in boys (Hantover 1978).…”

Section: Masculinities Age and Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity

Pompper

2010

Sex Roles

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By inviting two generations of ethnically diverse men to define masculinity, this study makes visible ways men conform to, negotiate, and resist forces of hegemonic masculinity in the 21st century. Masculine gender role conflict theory provides underpinning for a textual analysis of empirical evidence gathered among U.S. young college men (N=80) in focus groups and their fathers/uncles (N=27) during interviews. Findings suggest that masculinities predominantly are defined in non-physical terms. Perspectives offered by African-American/Black, Asian, Caucasian/ White, and Hispanic/Latino men offer nuanced crosscultural constructions and meanings of masculinities and influences that shape their sense of self. Reported overall was anxiety, confusion, and frustration-especially with regard to the metrosexual and (in)ability to measure up to media-promoted male body images.

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Section: Masculinities Age and Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity

Pompper

2010

Sex Roles

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“…At the same time Dowd accentuates that masculinity, as well as femininity, is a social construct instead of a biologically essentialist characteristic, and as such it is susceptible to change. However, Robert Nye (2005) justifiably warns against adopting the postmodern visions of plastic identities, susceptible to being shaped at will, pointing to Bourdieu and his rejection of the performativity of identity in favor of embodiment, that is, the inscription of gender in bodies and structures. In other words, identities exist in dependence to values, experiences and unconscious internalized experiences of reality, they are a social product of power relations, which prevents them from being self-implying.…”

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In the Name of the Father: A Discussion on (New) Fatherhood, Its Assumptions and Obstacles

Maskalan

2016

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“…Recently,work 190 A. Datta on masculinities (Gardiner 2002;McDowell 2002;Berg and Longhurst 2003;Murphy 2004;Longhurst 2005;Nye 2005;Vanderbeck 2005; Van Hoven and Horschelmann 2005) has extended Butler's (1999) concept of performativity to reveal the multiplicity of gender performances in material contexts. Indeed, McDowell's (2002) work suggests that even within 'laddish' masculinities there are 'feminine' aspirations for domestic harmony and respectability.…”

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“…Nye (2005) suggests that the chief signifiers of masculinity changes between locations and cultures, although participants often use masculinity as a stable category to assess men. Using bodily markers as signifiers of social positions and the movement of the body through different places, participants make judgements about forms of gendered embodiment.…”

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Spatialising performance: masculinities and femininities in a ‘fragmented’ field

Datta

2008

Gender, Place & Culture

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While there are many self-reflexive accounts of 'field' experience, few researchers have explicitly examined how different places within the field shape gender performances and subsequently the research process. This paper spatialises the notion of 'performance' by examining how male and female bodies in particular places of the field are perceived both by researchers and participants as markers of gender identity. The analysis is based on fieldwork in Subhash Camp, a squatter settlement in New Delhi where the author and her research assistant conducted semi-structured interviews with the residents. The fieldwork highlighted how the embedded power structures in different places of the field created encounters between different gendered bodies and, in turn, how different relationships between researchers and participants shaped the field 'experience'. I suggest that the 'field' should not be understood as a homogeneous terrain, but as a fragmented collection of places, each constructing multiple gender identities in research, and each telling its own research story.

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Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men

Cited by 40 publications

References 14 publications

Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity

Masculinities, the Metrosexual, and Media Images: Across Dimensions of Age and Ethnicity

In the Name of the Father: A Discussion on (New) Fatherhood, Its Assumptions and Obstacles

Spatialising performance: masculinities and femininities in a ‘fragmented’ field

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