Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity

Abstract

NONE were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or crawl across my way or over my skin, or stalk me in the night, or go along beside me for a while in the day. They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to feel or rub or caress one another's scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another's blood or flesh, keep one another warm-that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food.-Ursula K. Le Guin, "She Unnames Them"

Wu Masculinities, Traditional Men-Dog Relationships and the Defence of the Dog-Meat Festival in Modernizing Yulin China

“…Ramos-Gay and Alonso-Recarte (2020) proposed the study of “zoomasculinities” to inspect how animals signify conceptions of masculinity, as the association of animals to gender identities is more and more recognized. This paper contributes to masculinities studies by exploring human-dog relationships and the unbalanced power dynamics between them from a gendered perspective.…”