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‘Strong and courageous’ but ‘constantly insecure’: dialogical self theory, intersecting identities, and Christian mixed martial arts
2021
Being a mixed martial arts fighter and a devout Christian seems to present an apparent contradiction that requires identity work to bring these identities into unity. We used Dialogical Self Theory and explored the autobiography of Ron ‘H2O’ Waterman, a professional fighter turned evangelist, to understand how the tensions between the different identities or I-positions were negotiated. We identified two I-positions, ‘Ron the Fighter’ and ‘Ron the Pater Familias’, which related differently to religion, sport, and masculinity. Importantly, the negotiations were not between MMA and faith, but between these two I-positions that served the different needs for self-enhancement and union with som…
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
2020
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull body and suffuse it with multiple meanings reminiscent of America’s traumatic encounter with otherness. As a palimpsest that attests to both mainstream and countercultural explorations of racialized masculinities, the pit bull body is made to “perfor…
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
2018
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as methodological approach, we show how the discursive constructions of white Nordic masculinities are context contingent, rendering them subject to constant reinterpretation and repositioning, at times privileging some axes of…
Terrorist Masculinities: Political Masculinity between Fiction, Facts, and Their Mediation
2018
This essay proposes that terrorism manifests itself in a relation that encompasses masculinity as well as the media. The origin of this relationship is the joint performativity of gender and acts of terror. This makes terrorism an instrument of social and political change. But in order to legitimize themselves, terrorism as well as masculinity require authorization by a phantasmagorical power. Drawing on the dominance of males among terrorists, this essay will look at an early depiction of terrorism in Conrad’s The Secret Agent, a contemporary representation in Sahota’s novel Ours Are the Streets and terrorism’s real manifestation in the Paris carnage of November 2015. It will show that in…
Liberty Walther Barnes Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
2015
El problema de la despolitización del 'género' para la teoría feminista
2020
El propósito de este artículo es desarrollar un análisis crítico del proceso de despolitización del “género”. Se propone desvelar un importante punto de inflexión en el uso de “género”, de categoría analítica a característica individual, y su creciente sustitución del “sexo”. Se argumenta que la comprensión del género como percepción o sentimiento de pertenencia entre múltiples identidades no representa un marco teórico comprometido políticamente y está despojado de sentido para la emancipación de las mujeres de la dominación masculina. A lo largo del artículo (1) se desarrolla una breve narrativa de la historia del concepto, (2) se examina la comprensión del género desde la óptica de la id…
El Regreso. Homosexualidad masculina y migraciones internas en Cuba
2001
La década de los 90 parece haber sido el inicio de un cambio - quizás radical e irreversible - no solo en las concepciones sobre la homosexualidad en cuba sino, y acaso en mayor medida, en la vida de los propios homosexuales cubanos. Los nuevos espacios que se abren - sobre todo en Ciudad de La Habana - parecen haber provocado en no pocos varones homosexuales jóvenes, residentes temporales en la capital, el deseo de no regresar nunca más sus lugares de origen.
The Concept of Love in Masculinist Blogs : A Strategic Ideal
2018
Love is often considered a positive emotion and an ethical relationship between people. The representations of love in contemporary culture usually emphasise its beneficial, even empowering effects. However, the fluidity of the concept also enables other kinds of representations of love to flourish. For example, the advocates of traditional gender order — masculinists or male rights activists (MRAs)-— use idealistic images of heterosexual love, often intertwined with the idealised heterosexual nuclear family, to promote repressive ideologies such as misogyny and antifeminism. This is increasingly done with the help of internet sites. In this chapter I wish to show that the fluidity of the c…
The Student as a Representation of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Literature
2017
Hachetetepé : revista científica de educación y comunicación
2021
Siempre han existido estereotipos que condicionan la manera en que los individuos ven y entienden la realidad. Estas construcciones imaginarias resultan fundamentales en el proceso de socialización y se adquieren en gran parte a través de lecturas de la infancia. El porcentaje de traducciones en relación con las publicaciones totales de TRALIJ en España se ha venido situando en torno al 40 %1 en los últimos años, lo que pone de manifiesto el peso de la traducción de este tipo de literatura a la hora de perpetuar o rechazar los modelos de masculinidad y feminidad a los que exponemos a los más pequeños. Este es un análisis empírico-descriptivo de las traducciones al castellano y valenciano de…