Young Masculinities

Frosh, Stephen; Phoenix, Ann; Pattman, Rob

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“…Hence dominant re-presentations of black pupils as underachievers and as anti-education may severely limit their educational opportunities. This echoes similar accounts in other research into black pupils' experiences at school (e.g., Frosh, Phoenix, and Pattman, 2001;Sarup, 1986). Davis and Williams, for example, have argued that:…”

Section: The Role Of Re-presentation In the Othering Of Social Groupssupporting

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Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Howarth

2004

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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In this paper I present an examination of how we, in the everyday, develop critical engagement with the shifting relations of power and oppression around us. The paper explores the role of representations in maintaining the racialised patterns of school exclusion in Britain. I use social representations theory to investigate how racialising re-presentations pervade and create institutionalised practices, how these re-presentations invade young people's sense of self and ultimately how young people collaborate ways to resist and reject oppressive relations. The material presented here, from interviews with young people excluded from school, parents, teachers and others involved in school exclusion, illustrates how young people problematise and critique racialising re-presentations while participating in the conditions of oppression and resistance that pervade their experiences of school. The analysis is divided into three sections. The first examines the institutionalisation of stigmatising representations, visible in social practices. The second section looks at the role of re-presentation and engaged critique in the social construction of 'black pupils'. The concluding section explores the possibilities of resistance and critical engagement in the everyday. As a whole this reveals how young people develop critical engagement with the re-presentations that filter into and so constitute their realities. This enables an analysis of the role of resistance and contestation in social representation, highlights the importance of participation and community and so invites a critical version of social representations theory.

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Section: The Role Of Re-presentation In the Othering Of Social Groupssupporting

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Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Howarth

2004

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Some men will enjoy more access to power and influence than others" (p. 262). Pollack (1998) and Frosh, Phoenix & Pattman (2002) agree that this masculinity is learned at an early age, often in terms of social popularity, and that young boys are taught to value toughness, contention of authority on the one hand and learning, sporting ability, and fashion on the other. Pollack (1998) establishes a 'Boy Code', which is based on Brannon's (1976) four rules of masculinity and, akin to Kimmel's (2008) Guy Code, encourages emotional detachment and silence.…”

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Masculinity and Sport Revisted: A Review of Literature on Hegemonic Masculinity and Men's Ice Hockey in Canada

MacDonald¹

2014

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Ice hockey is particularly significant in Canada, since it acts as a primary site of socialization for boys and men. This form of socialization raises questions about masculinity on the public agenda in terms of the problematic nature of hypermasculinity in sport, stereotypical images of athletes, and questions of social responsibility as both men and athletes. These issues are presently relevant as Canada (and perhaps all of North America) finds itself in an era characterized by media accounts of competitive athletes' cavalier lifestyles, hazing rituals, violence, homophobia, drug addictions, and suicides. Scholars agree that these social issues can largely be attributed to problematic socialization through participation in hockey. This literature review uses secondary research to problematize masculinity in the ice hockey context by presenting the overarching claim that male hockey players embody hegemonic masculinity. The piece begins by defining R.W. Connell's (1987) concept of hegemonic masculinity and situating it in its current academic context. Next, it offers an overview of relevant literature on masculinity and sport along with a concise examination of scholarly work on the relationship between hegemonic masculinity and ice hockey in Canada. It concludes by summarising calls for further research in the field and by suggesting approaches to future studies.Keywords: athletes; hegemonic masculinity; hockey; sport Au Canada, le hockey sur place a une place toute particulière puisqu'il constitue un site de socialisation primaire pour les garçons et les hommes. Cette forme de socialisation soulève des questions sur la masculinité dans la perception générale, au regard de la nature problématique de l'hyper masculinité dans le sport, les stéréotypes d'athlètes et la responsabilité sociale des hommes et des athlètes. Ces questions sont d'actualité au Canada (et peut-être même dans le reste de l'Amérique du Nord) à une époque caractérisée par des images répandues de la vie insouciante des athlètes ainsi que des rituels d'initiation, de la violence, de l'homophobie, de la toxicomanie et du suicide. Une étude de la littérature se fonde sur des recherches secondaires pour cerner la problématique de la masculinité dans le contexte du hockey en présentant une hypothèse générale selon laquelle les joueurs de hockey masculins constituent des modèles de masculinité hégémonique. Le document présente d'abord la définition avancée par le sociologue australien R.W. Connell de la masculinité hégémonique (1987) avant de la situer dans un contexte académique contemporain. Ensuite, l'étude propose un survol de la littérature associée sur la masculinité et le sport, ainsi qu'un survol concis des études académiques sur le rapport entre la masculinité hégémonique et le hockey au Canada. La conclusion définit une synthèse des études à venir et propose des méthodes pour des études éventuelles sur le sujet.

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“…Young men are well aware of this splitting of public and private masculinities and able to mobilise a variety of repertoires of meanings and practices in the ways that they enact and talk about intimacy in order to handle and negotiate the tensions between them (Frosh, Phoenix & Pattman, 2002;Wight, 1994;Wight & Henderson, 2004). They may, for example, understand relationships which are primarily organised around sexual pursuit and conquest in terms of the 'public truth' about male interest in sex and female interest in love and those which focus on feelings as romantic (Redman, 2002).…”

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Young men in love: the (re)making of heterosexual masculinities through “serious” relationships

Forrest

2010

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractIn this paper I examine how young men's experience of what they termed 'serious' relationships are contexts in which they were engaged in the processes of exploring and, in some important ways, remaking their masculine identities. I refer to data drawn from indepth interviews with 8 middle-class, white young men who are reaching the end of their studies in a Scottish secondary school and planning to enter higher education. I identify and explore aspects of the intimate relationship in which these young men contest culturally patterned discourses of gender difference and, show, how in trying to resolve these differences, their sense of masculine identities is altered. I suggest that familiar gendered differences -relating to the ways that sex and love, commitment and independence and emotional expressiveness are linked to heterosexual masculinity and femininity -are three of the distinct fields of which these young men are aware and via which they engage in 'gender' work. I argue that how this work is done, the resources employed and the meanings that are generated are independent on specific local and temporal realities of these young men lives.

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Young Masculinities

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Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Re‐presentation and resistance in the context of school exclusion: reasons to be critical

Masculinity and Sport Revisted: A Review of Literature on Hegemonic Masculinity and Men's Ice Hockey in Canada

Young men in love: the (re)making of heterosexual masculinities through “serious” relationships

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