Fallen Heroes? All about Men

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Intimate Life

The question of what men are and what they want has become central to public debates and private concerns but we cannot understand what is happening if we see it as a problem for men alone. It needs to be considered as part of a long process in which masculinity and femininity, sexual normality and abnormality, and the nature of intimate life are being profoundly shaken. The emergence of a crisis discourse around masculinity has served to obscure the different conditions under which men live their lives, and to exaggerate in turn the radical dichotomy of men and women. Binary divisions along gender and sexual lines can be seen as an historical fiction which conceals a much more confused mixture of fears, anxieties and desires about what being a man means. The dramatic social and cultural changes that we are now witnessing provide conditions for reinventing the relations of gender and sexuality.

Gender characteristic attribution; masculinity and femininity in men and women

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K. Digerness ◽  
Benjamin Berlin ◽  
Todd Baird ◽  
Azenett Garza
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Gender Characteristic

Bois and grrrls meet their daddies and mommies on gender playgrounds: Gendered age play in the les-bi-trans-queer BDSM communities

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Intergenerational Play ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Gender

Based on a qualitative empirical study of les-bi-trans-queer BDSM in the USA and Europe, this article discusses sexual practices that explore the significance of age, gender and sexuality and their simultaneous workings to produce desires, embodiments, identities, intimacies and kinships that transgress and partially transform heteronormative social concepts. Queer ‘age play’ and ‘intergenerational play’ practices involved processes of becoming-child in the Deleuzian sense, renegotiating masculinity and femininity in relation to age, power and sexist stereotypes, as well as compensation for queer- and gender-related limitations experienced in one’s own childhood.

Shifts in Fear of Success in Men and Women from 1968 to 1987

1987 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen ◽  
Tracy Conlin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Fear Of Success ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Impact

A follow-up study on feat of success was completed 19 years after Horner collected her data in 1968. It was hypothesized that cultural changes relating to women's liberation would result in fewer women and more men exhibiting fear of success compared to Horner's findings. 25 men and 25 women were tested using Horner's procedures to facilitate comparisons. A higher percentage of men exhibited fear of success than Horner reported; however, the percentage of women remained about the same. Apparently, the impact of societal changes on men has been greater than on women.

scholarly journals “I am African, iko nini”

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-233
Author(s):  
Rachel Spronk
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Discursive Field ◽  
Urban Professionals

In Nairobi, young urban professionals self-confidently position themselves as Africans, while they are simultaneously reproached for being ‘un-African’. I explore this economy of claims and how it relates to the way the lifestyles of young professionals become the focus of generational conflict. I follow how various actors use the notions African, Western, modern and traditional as reified concepts that comprise a discursive field of practices. Disentangling public debates and individual self-perceptions, it becomes clear that matters of cultural heritage, gerontocratic relations and intergenerational expectations, and shifts in gender and sexuality reflect a field of tension and ambivalence. Young urban professionals display a vibrant cosmopolitan way of being and are the visible results of social transformations that started with their grandparents.

Dehumanizing Gender: The Debiasing Effects of Gendering Human-Abstracted Entities

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 1681-1696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley E. Martin ◽  
Michael L. Slepian
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Stereotyping ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Novel Model ◽  
Opposing Effect

The propensity to “gender”—or conceptually divide entities by masculinity versus femininity—is pervasive. Such gendering is argued to hinder gender equality, as it reifies the bifurcation of men and women into two unequal categories, leading many to advocate for a “de-gendering movement.” However, gendering is so prevalent that individuals can also gender entities far removed from human sex categories of male and female (i.e., weather, numbers, sounds) due to the conceptual similarities they share with our notions of masculinity and femininity (e.g., tough, tender). While intuition might predict that extending gender to these (human-abstracted) entities only further reinforces stereotypes, the current work presents a novel model and evidence demonstrating the opposing effect. Five studies demonstrate that gendering human-abstracted entities highlights how divorced psychological notions of gender are from biological sex, thereby decreasing gender stereotyping and penalties toward stereotype violators, through reducing essentialist views of gender. Rather than “de-gendering” humans, we demonstrate the potential benefits of “dehumanizing gender.”

African Masculinities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ndubueze L. Mbah
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Biological Sex ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Gender System

As a system of identity, African masculinity is much more than a cluster of norms, values, and behavioral patterns expressing explicit and implicit expectations of how men should act and represent themselves to others. It also refers to more than how African male bodies, subjectivities, and experiences are constituted in specific historical, cultural, and social contexts. African masculinities, as historical subjects embodying distinctive socially constructed gender and sexual identities, have been both male and female. By occupying a masculine sociopolitical position, embodying masculine social traits, and performing cultural deeds socially construed and symbolized as masculine, African men and women have constituted masculinity. Across various African societies and times, there have been multiple and conflicting notions of masculinities, promoted by local and foreign institutions, and there have been ceaseless contestations and synergies among the various forms of hegemonic, subordinate, and subversive African masculinities. Men and women have frequently brought their own agendas to bear on the political utility of particular notions of masculinity. Through such performances of masculinity, Africans have constantly negotiated the institutional power dynamics of gender relations. So, the question is not whether Africans worked with gender binaries, because they did. As anthropologist John Wood puts it, African indigenous logic of gender becomes evident in the juxtaposition, symbolic reversals, and interrelation of opposites. Rather, one should ask, why and how did African societies generate a fluid gender system in which biological sex did not always correspond to gender, such that anatomically male and female persons could normatively occupy socially constructed masculine and feminine roles and vice versa? And how did African mutually constitutive gender and sexuality constructions shape African societies?

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra A. Shattuck
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Gender Ideals ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Moment

The Introduction presents the thesis that baseball has not always been identified as a man’s game even though its boosters began proclaiming it a “manly” pastime from the moment it coalesced into a new sport in antebellum America. It explains that humans use sport to inculcate and express socio-cultural identities like race, gender, social class, and ethnicity. It argues that sports can have gendered characterizations; these gendered characterizations can take decades to solidify. Gender ideals are fluid, influenced by myriad factors, and jointly constructed by men and women. Both men and women have used sport to model and perpetuate ideals of masculinity and femininity. The history of women baseball players as been distorted by myth and misperception as baseball’s gendered identity solidified.

Gender Communication: Understanding the Problem

10.12737/5746 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Головашенко ◽  
Irina Golovashenko
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
New Order ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
The Subject

The article analyzes problem of gender communication, certain socio-cultural changes and their consequences. It shows that main methodological philosophical approaches of this problem explain features of the communication between men and women. Attention is focused on the philosophical aspect of subject-object dichotomy in gender theory. Object of our investigation is gender communication in modern society. The subject of research is the methodological basis and technology for the gender communication implementation as a culturological socio-forming factor. The author analyses the effects of the individuals interaction in different contexts of gender relations. The basis for the discourse is Michael Foucault’s concept of power, which has had a most powerful effect on gender theory since the late 20th century. The aim of the article is to confirm the possibility of a new order and communication priorities.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Cuban Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (136) ◽  
pp. 185-197
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Barriers To Change ◽  
The Us

Abstract In a summer 2018 interview conducted for this special issue of RHR, the US-born lesbian feminist artist, activist, and scholar Margaret Randall reflects on the Cuban Revolution’s achievements and shortcomings in the arena of women’s and sexuality rights. What have women and sexual minorities contributed to Cuba’s experiment in radical equality, and what remains to be done? How has feminism—in all its variety—shaped the aspirations of Cuban men and women, and what have US feminists learned from their efforts? What makes gender justice happen, and who or what constitutes barriers to change?

Youth, Gender, and the Workplace

2013 ◽  
Vol 646 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Naafs
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Industrial Town

Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2010, this article examines how relatively educated Muslim youths navigate employment and family life in the context of an emerging globalized Muslim youth culture and economic restructuring in the industrial town of Cilegon, Indonesia. Specifically, the article explores the aspirations of young men and women for work and marriage and their ability to achieve locally valued forms of masculinity and femininity during their transitions to adulthood. It argues that aspirations and decisions about employment are informed by, and in turn contribute to, gendered and religious expectations about marriage and future family life.

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