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Masculinities at work. Male-to-male internet escorting in Italy and Sweden
2023
Questa ricerca si propone di mappare e analizzare il fenomeno dei lavoratori sessuali (in particolare degli uomini che vendono sesso ad altri uomini) in Italia e Svezia. Mentre il lavoro sessuale femminile è stato studiato da ricercatrici e ricercatori in tutto il mondo, il sex work maschile appare caratterizzato da persistenti disattenzioni. Questa lacuna nella letteratura scientifica rispecchia una più generale invisibilità e mancanza di chiarezza sulla questione anche in altri ambiti: nella politica, nella stampa, e nell’opinione pubblica. Inoltre, sebbene la maschilità sia un concetto importante e ampiamente studiato sia in sociologia che negli studi di genere, le precedenti ricerche ha…
Masculinité transnationale et corps-mâle dans les romans d’Abdellah Taïa
2016
I romanzi dello scrittore marocchino d'espressione francese Abdellah Taïa esaminano con attenzione la maschilità nel contesto migratorio. Omosessuale ed esiliato, Taïa cerca di costruire la sua identità sessuale secondo il modello occidentale; così facendo, contribuisce alla creazione di una maschilità islamica transnazionale che si decentra, pur restando ancorata all'eredità culturale delle sue terre d'origine. L'articolo si propone di interrogare le modalità di tale costruzione identitaria a partire dagli studi di Connell sulla maschilità egemonica e dalla psicoanalisi lacaniana applicata alla dimensione immaginaria del corpo. The novels of the French Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa examine…
Driving Through Neoliberalism : Finnish Truck Drivers Constructing Respectable Male Worker Subjectivities
2017
This chapter analyses how Finnish male truck drivers (re)produce themselves as respectable male workers in the face of the recent economic, technological and institutional transformations impacting the European haulage sector. The investigation is based on ethnographic data which are produced by riding along on assignments with ten male Finnish truck drivers in the period 2012–2016. The analysis shows how truck drivers’ independence and value in the work process has become challenged and how truckers experience being occupationally stigmatized. The study argues, however, that while economic restructuring undermines some components of traditional forms of working-class masculinity, masculine…
“An Unpleasant Book about Unpleasant Boys at an Unpleasant School”: Kipling’s Reshaping of the Victorian School Story in “Stalky & Co.”
2022
“Slaves of the Lamp, Part One”—the first tale of Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky & Co.—was published in 1897, forty years after the publication of Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown’s Schooldays, a book that created a pattern followed by other practitioners of the school-story genre. The aim of the following paper is to discuss the ways in which Kipling challenged the established conventions of the Victorian school story. In contrast to his predecessors, Kipling did not set his tales in an old, established public school; he questioned the importance of sports and games in developing manly character; and refused to idolize the school traditions. His protagonists rebel against authority and do not follow…
Fighting words : representations of dominant masculinity in the interviews of a mixed martial arts champion
2017
Vapaaottelun kasvattaessa suosiotaan kansainvälisesti tunnettuna urheilulajina ovat myös lukuisat vapaaottelijat yhä laajenevan mediahuomion alaisina sekä lisääntyvän julkisen vaikutusvallan käyttäjinä. Näin ollen useille vapaaottelijoille vaikuttaa olevan yhä tärkeämpää esiintyä julkisesti siten, että heidän käytöksensä houkuttelisi mahdollisimman paljon maksavia asiakkaita katsomaan heidän otteluitaan sekä itse ottelutapahtumiin että maksullisten TV- ja internet-palveluiden välityksellä. Tyypillisesti tällainen käytös sisältää oman itsen julkituomista mahdollisimman maskuliinisesti ja itsevarmasti sekä kilpakumppanien esittämistä muun muassa fyysisesti ja urheilullisilta kyvyiltään alempi…
”Mies kaatuu sinänsä kunniakkaasti” – psykoanalyyttinen luenta miesten terveysoppaista
2018
Artikkelissa kysytään, millainen on miehisen terveyskäyttäytymisen kulttuuriperintö; millä tavalla menneisyys, yhteiskunta, tavat ja arvot ovat miesten terveyden edistämiseen tähtäävissä teksteissä läsnä, ja miten ne toimivat. Artikkelin aineistona on kymmenen vuosina 1998–2010 julkaistua suomalaista, miehille suunnattua terveys- ja hyvinvointiopasta. Aineistoa lähestytään kulttuuriperinnön tutkimuksen näkökulmasta ja analyysissä käytetään kristevalaista psykoanalyyttista luentaa. Oppaiden terveysneuvonta perustuu käsitykselle miehestä, jonka terveyskäyttäytymiseen ja -ongelmiin vaikuttavat biologia ja myyttinen menneisyys. Oppaissa tulkinta kulttuuriperinnöstä esitetään samanlaisella varmu…
Maschilità egemone. FORMULAZIONE, RIFORMULAZIONE E DIFFUSIONE
2022
The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification provides the first comprehensive overview of the concept-from its original conception to how it has evolved over time. The book also examines some of the most powerful ways the concept is being used in contemporary gender studies. Hegemonic Masculinity describes the development of the concept, the actual formulation and initial applications of the concept, the eventual reformulation and subsequent applications of that reformulation, and finally, the …
Heroism as legitimation of Enlightenment values: Production strategies, changes and disagreements
2020
espanolEn tiempos de inseguridad politica, literatos y gobernantes apoyaron toda una serie de argumentos orientados a construir heroes civilizadores y sacrificados en beneficio de la patria, la sociedad y el «bien comun». Este articulo analiza las variadas estrategias y formas, siempre en constante proceso de definicion, con los que este heroismo ilustrado prolifero en la segunda mitad del siglo. Despues de pasar revista a las coordenadas historicas y a los debates en los que se desenvuelve la fabricacion de nuevos heroes, sin dejar de lado otro tipo de heroismo —heredado de la cultura humanista— me detendre especificamente en los conquistadores de America, sometidos a la critica de los int…
Heroism as legitimation of Enlightenment values: Production strategies, changes and disagreements
2020
During the eighteenth century's periods of political insecurity, writers and rulers supported a whole series of arguments aimed at constructing civilizing heroes who are sacrificed for the benefit of the country, society and the «common good.» This article analyses the different strategies and forms through which an enlightened heroism proliferated in the second half of the century and that were in a constant process of being defined. After reviewing the historical coordinates and the debates within which the creation of new heroes unfolded, and without neglecting another type of heroism—that inherited from humanist culture—I will specifically focus on the conquistadores of the Americas, wh…
The Hyperreal Gambler : On the Visual Construction of Men in Online Poker Ads
2017
Online poker, like gambling in general, is predominantly a male activity. Thus, poker ads most often depict men as their protagonists. According to Jean Baudrillard, advertising can be seen as a ‘plebiscite whereby mass consumer society wages a perpetual campaign of self- endorsement.’ Ads often use stereotypical imagery for establishing a shared experience of identification with the consumer, and since their role is to sell rather than to portray the realities of life, they often have an exaggerated and monolithic – or, hyperreal – way of representing gender. This article offers an analysis of the ways in which men are portrayed in the ads of Poker Magazine Finland in the volume of 2009 (a…