Negotiating masculinities: Polish male migrants in the UK – insights from an intersectional perspective

Fiałkowska, Kamila

doi:10.1080/18902138.2018.1533270

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“…For example, Konopka et al (2021) found that Polish men exposed to a masculinity threat experienced a greater negative emotional response and heightened transnegativity than those who received no threat cues. Previous research has established that perceptions of masculinity do vary by country (Fiałkowska, 2019). DiMuccio et al (2017) explain these differences in perceptions of masculinity when they found that men in the United States viewed manhood as more precarious than Danish men, as the former group perceived needing to demonstrate manhood through the physical ability of the body rejecting femininity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is possible that men's responses to masculinity threat may vary depending on cultural factors. For example, Polish men conform more to traditional, hegemonic masculine ideals relative to British men (Fiałkowska, 2019). As such, in addition to examining explicit and relatively stable attitude components (e.g., gender role adherence and gender essentialism), it is vital to examine whether implicit threats to gender identity help explain transnegativity, especially among a sample of U.K. cisgender men.…”

Section: Masculinity Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample.

Jones¹,

Cahill²,

McDermott³

2023

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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Previous research has shown that identifying as a man, endorsing traditional gender norms, and holding gender essentialist beliefs are associated with more negative attitudes toward the trans and gender diverse (TGD) community. Implicit cues relating to gender identity, such as a threat to masculinity, have also been associated with negative attitudes. Currently, no research has examined this combination of predictors nor the influence of implicit cues in a U.K. sample, and therefore the current studies aimed to address this gap. Study 1 included 204 participants who were asked to complete measures of traditional gender ideology, gender essentialism, and attitudes toward TGD people. Study 2 involved 330 participants who experienced a threat to masculinity/femininity, masculinity/femininity affirmation, or were part of a control group. Study 1 found that men had poorer attitudes toward TGD people and less positive gender and sex beliefs through adherence to traditional gender norms and holding gender essentialist beliefs compared to women. Unexpectedly, following masculinity threat, men did not show more negative attitudes toward TGD people relative to men who did not receive this threat. As expected, there was no difference in attitudes toward TGD people in women who did and did not receive a threat. Being a man has an association with negative attitudes. Findings suggest that antiprejudice interventions toward the TGD population should target beliefs regarding gender ideology and essentialist beliefs to be effective. Future research should consider additional determinants of transnegativity, such as collective narcissism, emotional prejudice, positive intergroup contact, and mental health stigma. Public Significance StatementSociety can be a very hostile place for trans and gender diverse (TGD) people, and the present study has helped us identify some of the factors that are associated with negative attitudes. We describe findings from two studies that found the belief that gender is natural (and cannot be changed) and traditional beliefs about men and women's gender roles were associated with more negative attitudes toward TGD people. These findings can be used to inform future initiatives aimed at making society a more welcoming and inclusive place for everyone.

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Section: Masculinity Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample.

Jones¹,

Cahill²,

McDermott³

2023

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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“…Unfortunately, these studies are surprisingly thin on the gendered nature of their methodologies (cf. Berntsen, 2015; Datta, 2008; Datta, 2009; Datta and Brickell, 2009; Fiałkowska, 2018; Swider, 2015; Wagner, 2015). An interesting example of this relative lack of reflection on the female researcher/male interlocutor experience is Datta and Brickell’s article (2009).…”

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“…As Leszkowicz writes (cited in Lipowska-Teutsch, 2006: 100), Polish masculinity is shaped by a “dream of domination, rather than domination itself,” “by the sexual, economic and political frustration rather than fulfillment and success.” It is a somewhat frustrated patriarchy, so to speak. Similarly, research conducted in Britain indicated that Polish men construct an image of themselves as gentler and with more finesse than British men, particularly working-class British men (Datta, 2009; Datta and Brickell, 2009; Fiałkowska, 2018).…”

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Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers

Gato

Matyska

2021

Ethnography

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Writing about sexism and sexual harassment in the field is still generally discouraged outside gender ethnography, despite a growing gender reflexivity in research. This is mostly due to certain established norms and expectations about ethnographic work that tend to ignore how these issues contribute to women’s fieldwork experiences and subsequent ethnographic accounts. In this article, we go against this tendency by setting out our gendered experiences as female ethnographers conducting research on labor mobility in the male-dominated construction industry among Brazilian internal migrants in Rio de Janeiro and among Polish migrant workers in Europe. We foreground how gendered dynamics affected our fieldwork experience and how they generated a degree of self-doubt and self-blame about our methodological choices. Our hope is that writing about our experiences will help female ethnographers to better prepare for and consider the different kinds of sexism that will inevitably shape their knowledge production.

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Bargaining with gendered egalitarianism. A transnational compensatory patriarchy in Polish Catholic Missions in England, Belgium, Sweden

Urbańska

Leszczyńska

Zielińska

2022

Gender, Place & Culture

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Negotiating masculinities: Polish male migrants in the UK – insights from an intersectional perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 46 publications

Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample.

Gender, traditional gender ideology, gender essentialist beliefs, and masculinity threat as determinants of attitudes toward trans and gender diverse people in a U.K. sample.

Gendered encounters in mobility: Women researching migrant construction workers

Bargaining with gendered egalitarianism. A transnational compensatory patriarchy in Polish Catholic Missions in England, Belgium, Sweden

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