Search results for "Masculinity"
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Anti-schoolness in context: the tension between the youth project and the qualifications project
2011
Published version of an article in the journal Social Psychology of Education. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-011-9153-3 In this ethnographic study conducted in two classrooms in Norway, grade nine (14-year-olds) in lower secondary school and the first year (16-year-olds) of upper secondary school, attention is drawn to how classroom culture is constituted through relationships between students. Through processes of power, dominance, hegemony and marginalisation, classroom culture forms the conditions for a learning environment, and has different opportunities, dilemmas and costs for the students. As classroom culture is negotiated in contextual and r…
MASCHILITÀ OMOSESSUALI TRA SESSO E AMICIZIA. COME LE ‘DATING APPS’ RISCRIVONO I COPIONI SESSUALI NEL XXI SECOLO
2021
This paper analysis sexual scripts theory in relation to gay men courtship, love relationships, and casual sex. The aim is to understand how gay masculinity is evolving in the 21st Century. Previous research has reinforced the concept that gay men follow heterosexual masculinity and scripts in their relationships with other men. Here, analysing data from the most used gay dating app ‘Grindr’, we try to understand the balance among the different needs gay men in Italy express in their daily lives: from friendship to love, from casual sex to long-term relationships. Indeed, applying the heterosexual cultural script to gay men is problematic because hegemonic masculinity is also reinforced in …
The gender role self-concept of men in female-dominated occupations: does it depend on how they see their jobs?
2014
In this study, we investigated the masculinity of men in female-dominated occupations. Our assumptions that token status, masculine task redefinition, and job control are related to masculinity were supported by results of segmented and hierarchical regressions with data from 213 men in female-dominated occupations. A comparison with 98 men from male-dominated occupations revealed that these results are specific for men in female-dominated occupations. Moderated regression did not support the assumption that the relation between masculine task redefinition would be stronger under low job control. Instead, the opposite pattern was found. Under high job control, the choice of tasks and their …
“Some Women Are Born Fighters”: Discursive Constructions of a Fighter’s Identity by Female Finnish Judo Athletes
2017
Martial arts and combat sports have been traditionally associated with masculinity, and a range of contradictory meanings have been attached to women’s engagement and experiences. The present study draws on cultural praxis and feminist poststructuralist frameworks to explore how female martial artists are subjectified to dominant cultural discourses surrounding fighting and competition. Interviews with nine female judoka (judo athletes) were gathered in Finland and analyzed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The FDA revealed that in female judoka talk, judo was constructed as a sport for all, but also as a male domain and a manly sport with fighting and competition as innate mascul…
Masculinity ideology and psychological strain: Considering men’s social stressors in female-dominated occupations
2015
According to the gender role strain paradigm (GRSP), men's adherence to masculinity ideology could result in dysfunction strain when it becomes incompatible with other role demands. To support the relevance of GRSP in the work context, we explored the relationship between masculinity ideology and st
When Physical Activity Participation Promotes Inactivity
2010
This article analyses negative experiences in physical education and sport reported during qualitative interviews of a group of inactive adolescent Spanish boys and girls. The purpose of this analysis is twofold. First and most important, it seeks to give voice to these young people reporting negative experiences and connect them to contexts of physical activity and sport in which they occurred in order to show how, ironically, inactivity is an unintended consequence. Second, the authors attempt to connect inactivity through negative experiences by drawing on conceptual notions of a gendered performativity culture, and symbolic violence. The authors conclude by commenting on how these insi…
Narratives of Men's experiences in Sport
1990
The first part of the article describes men's experiences from the perspective of women and the second part presents an interpretation of the sport experience from a male's perspective. The relationship between the two parts, which are critical of masculinity yet simultaneously sympathetic to men, are complementary rather than contradictory. As such, the paper represents a contribution to the emergence of a new conception of women's and men's studies. The article's methodological framework is drawn from the field of women's studies and centres on the recollection and interpretation of one's own life history. The first part of the article is about how masculinity in boys is constructed with…
Vīriešu - feministu vīrišķības interpretācijas
2015
Bakalaura darbs „Vīriešu – feministu vīrišķības interpretācijas” mēģina noskaidrot, kā vīrieši, kas sevi dēvē par feministiem, piedēvē nozīmes vīrišķībai. Darbā skaidrotas vīrišķībai piešķirtās nozīmes, vīrišķības izpratnes saistība ar feminismu un kā vīrišķības izpratnes atklājas ikdienas praksēs. Kā darba teorētiskais ietvars izmantota Reivinas Koneles maskulinitātes teorija, to papildinot ar citu pētnieku darbiem un simboliskā interakcionisma perspektīvu. Darbā izmantotas kvalitatīvās pētījumu metodes, veicot sešas daļēji strukturētas intervijas un iegūtos datus analizējot ar kvalitatīvās kontentanalīzes metodes. Rezultāti atklāj, ka vīrišķības nozīme pētījuma dalībnieku dzīvē nav izteik…
Il crimine come azione strutturata
2021
James W. Messerschmidt è tra i primi studiosi, all’interno di una cornice teorica che predilige una prospettiva dell’azione strutturata, a mostrare che fare il crimine significa anche fare maschilità, insieme ad altre differenze che hanno effetti strutturanti e che implicano dotazioni diseguali di potere come la classe sociale, l’appartenenza etno-razziale, l’età, la sessualità e le diverse forme di incorporamento che producono «corpi» diversi (Messerschmidt 1997). James W. Messerschmidt is among the first scholars, within a theoretical framework that favors a structured action perspective, to show that doing crime also means doing masculinity, along with other differences that have structu…
Becoming Male Sex Worker, Doing Masculinities. Socio-Sexual Interactions and Gender Production in Men Selling Sex to Men in Italy and Sweden
2022
Although masculinity is a powerful concept in both sociology and gender studies, previous research forgot to analyse sex work under this perspective. Even though the actors involved are men, and previous studies have highlighted the importance of masculinity not only in the relation man-to-woman but also in the “gay world”, there is a lack of attention in male sex working. Then, the aim of this paper is to analyse sex work under the perspective of masculinity in order to understand what type of relationships are created between sex workers and their clients and which role it is played by masculinity, how the relation is shaped by it. Moreover, we explain how doing sex work is also a way to …