scholarly journals Masculinity and the national hockey league: Hockey's gender constructions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jonathan Murdock McKay
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Western Society ◽  
National Hockey League ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
Gender Constructions

As a part of gender studies, academics have shone a spotlight on hegemonic masculinity in Western society. One of the places where hegemony is most prevalent is in sports culture. The research in this document seeks to build on existing scholarship concerning hegemonic masculinity in sports culture. Through textual analysis of National Hockey League communications, this study gathered data of how the league distributes messages about gender, how the league wants to be portrayed and if those messages outweigh the hegemonic masculinity of sports. This analysis found that, while the NHL promotes inclusive masculinity, its hegemonic values are the ones more prominent. Despite the league's efforts to become more inclusive, there remains much work ahead for the NHL if it truly desires to foster an inclusive masculinity.

(Re)Fashioning Masculinity: Social Identity and Context in Men’s Hybrid Masculinities through Dress

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Barry
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Do So

Modern Western society has framed fashion in opposition to hegemonic masculinity. However, fashion functions as a principal means by which men’s visible gender identities are established as not only different from women but also from other men. This article draws on the concept of hybrid masculinities and on wardrobe interviews with Canadian men across social identities to explore how men enact masculinities through dress. I illustrate three ways men do hybrid masculinities by selecting, styling, and wearing clothing in their everyday lives. The differences between these three hybrid masculine configurations of practice are based on the extent to which men’s personal and professional social identities were associated with hegemonic masculine ideals as well as the extent to which those ideals shaped the settings in which they were situated. Although participants had different constellations of gender privilege, they all used dress to reinforce hegemonic masculinity, gain social advantages, and subsequently preserve the gender order. Failing to do so could put them personally and professionally at risk. My research nuances the hybrid masculinities framework by demonstrating how its enactment is shaped by the intersection between men’s social identities and social contexts.

Classroom Heroes

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-169
Author(s):  
Winona Landis
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Critical Ethnic Studies ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Interdisciplinary Courses

This chapter explores the use of comics as pedagogical tools in interdisciplinary courses such as Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. Specifically, the chapter investigates the ways in which the superhero comic Ms. Marvel is an important example of feminist and anti-racist pedagogy for these courses. By framing the textual analysis of the comic through gender and critical race theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Shireen Roshanravan, the chapter demonstrates the ways in which Kamala Khan, the protagonist, grapples with villains and difficulties that reflect the societal issues of sexism, racism, and Islamophobia. Kamala Khan’s battle against injustice resonates with many readers’ everyday experiences, and disrupts both genre-based and hegemonic structures of oppression and heroism. By teaching Ms. Marvel through the lens of gender studies and critical ethnic studies, this text enables students to gain a new perspective on race, justice, and “terror,” which allows them to be more just, empathetic learners.

scholarly journals Masculinity and Rhythmic Gymnastics. An Exploration on the Transgression of Gender Order in Sport

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquín Piedra
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Rhythmic Gymnastics ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Future

Patriarchal dominance in our Western society has oppressed not only women but it has also isolated many men who did not comply with hegemonic masculinity patterns. The aim of this study is to know and analyse the experiences of a group of boys who practise rhythmic gymnastics, traditionally linked to the feminine reality. Within this interpretative paradigm, eight interviews has been done to gymnasts (8-19 years old), who practise rhythmic gymnastics in a competitive or amateur level. The boys express the familiar support that they have had when deciding to practise a traditionally feminine sport. However, many gymnasts have been insulted or mocked by other boys. Therefore, it is important to work with families in order to eliminate stereotypes and prejudices in this masculine discipline in the future. Similarly, rhythmic gymnastics must be promoted among boys, since a higher presence of boys in clubs would ease their reception among girls. 

Recipes for Change? Patriarchal and Progressive Masculinities in Cookbooks for Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-347
Author(s):  
Jason A. Nolen
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
First Century ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Special Circumstances

In this article, representations of culinary masculinities are analyzed. Through a textual analysis of two sets of twenty-first-century cookbooks—those targeted to “men” and those targeted to “dads”—I show that two contrasting hybridizations of hegemonic masculinity are represented. The men’s cookbooks present a patriarchal masculinity that supports men’s structural dominance over women by framing men’s cooking as distinct from routine care work. This is achieved by portraying men’s cooking as an instrumental strategy for gaining sexual or romantic access to women, as a way of elevating the esteem in which others (usually nonfamily members) hold the male cook, and as an irregular activity that is performed on special occasions or due to special circumstances. The dads’ cookbooks present a progressive masculinity that challenges men’s dominance by framing men’s cooking as a form of routine care work. This is achieved by portraying men’s cooking as a daily endeavor, as an activity that is attentive to the nutritional and emotional needs of children, and as an aspect of a larger parenting project that encompasses household management and children’s social development. This analysis contributes to the debate over whether hybridizations of hegemonic masculinity perpetuate or challenge men’s dominance by suggesting that the multiplicity of hybrid masculinities provides for the dual possibility of a movement toward gender equality or a retrenchment of patriarchal power.

Masculinities, sexualities and identities: Understanding HIV positive and HIV negative male rape victims

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aliraza Javaid
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Male Victims ◽  
Male Rape ◽  
Psychological Suffering ◽  
Male Rape Myths

This empirical article focuses on how HIV intersects with male rape, and how the virus challenges and weakens male rape victims’ sense of masculinity. Drawing on hegemonic masculinity to elucidate the different ways in which men as victims of rape cope with their disease, the article argues that male victims handle the effects of rape themselves to keep their masculinity intact. Drawing on interviews with HIV positive and non-HIV positive male rape victims ( N = 15), it is argued that male victims of rape not only often struggle to manage their HIV status in a social sphere, but also may suffer contradictions in relation to embodying hegemonic masculinity. In addition to such struggles, male rape victims sometimes attract victim blaming attitudes, such as ‘he asked for it’, indicating that male rape victims are blamed for both contracting HIV and for being raped. HIV positive and non-HIV positive male rape victims question their masculinity while stigma develops through social relations with other people, particularly other men. Male rape myths are present in western society. This article seeks to open up a dialogue surrounding the salient issues associated with male rape, including HIV and male rape myths, while attempting to eliminate such harmful myths. It is important to tackle male rape myths because they can contribute to the underreporting of male rape and can compound male rape victims’ reluctance to seek help for their HIV, emotional and psychological suffering.

Weaponized Patriotism and Racial Subtext in Kaepernick’s Aftermath: The Anti-politics of American Sports Fandom

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
Michael Serazio ◽  
Emily Thorson
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Black Athletes ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
Sports Fandom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Militaristic Nationalism

The history of sports culture and fandom has long been as reactionary as it has been hospitable to progressive politics. As the most conspicuous recent example, NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s U.S. anthem protest generated intense controversy with many critics claiming that sports and politics should, generally, not mix—a condemnation that ignores that context’s already pervasive militaristic nationalism. This article offers the first nationally representative examination of fans’ antipathy toward sports’ politicization through a critical textual analysis and inductive classification of their responses to the issue. Ostensibly “aracial” rebukes to that activism could nonetheless be characterized in lineage with historically stereotypical representations of and affronts to black athletes: as threatening to society, not intellectually equipped to engage, and illegitimate as leaders.

scholarly journals Artistic Strategies in the Face of the Questioning of Hegemonic Masculinity in Western Society: From the crisis at the end of 20th Century to its Resurgence Today

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Alfonso Del Río Almagro ◽  
Mariano Manuel Pastrana de la Flor
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
The Face

This article sets out a study about the capacity of the artistic discourse to question the representation of concepts that support traditional hegemonic masculinity in occidental society and its mechanisms of reproduction, from the crisis of the masculinities of the 90s to the present, with the appearance of new emerging hegemonic masculinities. If at the end of the 20th century we witnessed cultural transformations that transgressed the normative ideal of Occidental masculinity, making possible the proliferation of new Masculinities, the sociocultural changes that occurred in the first decades of the 21stcentury have ended up impacting on the values underlying the dominant masculinity, provoking a new resurgence and strengthening of conservative masculinities models. For this purpose, based on the contributions of those of the Studies of Masculinity, we developed a critical analysis of the contemporary artistic strategies that, both at the end of the XX century and at present, have intervened in the construction processes of normative masculinity, altering their representation codes, visibilizing proposals of new peripheral masculinities and favouring alternative models against not hegemonic masculinities and more plural, inclusive and egalitarian.

scholarly journals Mobile Masculinities: An Investigation of Networked Masculinities in Gay Dating Apps

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathian Shae Rodriguez ◽  
Jennifer Huemmer ◽  
Lindsey Erin Blumell
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Individual Profiles ◽  
Level Process

This study argues that hegemonic masculinity and inclusive masculinity are conciliatory when applied to networked masculinities in homosexual spaces. It contends hegemonic masculinity is a macro-level process that informs micro-level processes of inclusive masculinity. Employing a textual analysis of 500 individual profiles in gay dating apps (Scruff, GROWLr, GuySpy and Hornet), findings indicate networked masculinities informed by hegemonic masculinity. A process of “mascing” also resulted from the data.

scholarly journals Women in Popular Korean Drama: In Need of Embracing ‘Cyborg’ Feminism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamna Singh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Binary Constraints ◽  
Gender Neutral ◽  
Cyborg Feminism ◽  
The Individual

Women in Korean television dramas are depicted as modern, multifaceted, feminine and feminist. However, while rich, varied and complex on the surface; the female characters reveal their identities as remaining bound by traditional notions of what it means to be female, albeit a feminist female. Previous studies in this area are few and far between and do not focus on recently aired shows. As Korean dramas play a vital, conscious and subconscious role in shaping the individual and society, such research is the need of the hour; more so as the global popularity of these dramas has made them the unofficial cultural ambassadors of Asia. Through the lens of Donna Haraway’s feminist theory, this paper applies qualitative textual analysis to selected Korean dramas aired in the summer of the year 2020. It finds that female characters in these shows need to embrace what Haraway calls ‘cybernetic identity’. Using the symbol of the cyborg which is gender-neutral, these characters need to embrace ‘multigenderism’ without concern for what ‘category’ this will put them in, thus allowing their self-expression without the binary constraints of being ‘male’ or ‘female’ or the fear of being ‘something in between genders’. This research aims to further Gender Studies and inspire depictions of characters devoid of any preconceived notions in Korean dramas.

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