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James W Messerschmidt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Salience of “Hegemonic Masculinity”:
Men and Masculinities, 2019Co-Authors: James W MesserschmidtAbstract:This article argues that the concept of “Hegemonic Masculinity” remains highly salient to critical masculinities studies. The author outlines Raewyn Connell's initial formulation of the concept, ho...
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Osama Bin Laden and His Jihadist Global Hegemonic Masculinity
Gender & Society, 2018Co-Authors: James W Messerschmidt, Achim RohdeAbstract:This article examines for the first time the jihadist global Hegemonic Masculinity of Osama bin Laden. Based on Bin Laden’s public statements translated into English, the authors examine how in the...
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engendering gendered knowledge assessing the academic appropriation of Hegemonic Masculinity
Men and Masculinities, 2012Co-Authors: James W MesserschmidtAbstract:The appropriation of concepts long established as salient contributions to gender theory and research recently has come under scholarly scrutiny. In this article, the author contributes to this dissection of crucial gender concepts by assessing the recent academic appropriation of the reformulated concept of “Hegemonic Masculinity” and how this appropriation engenders gendered knowledge. The author first briefly revisits the concept of Hegemonic Masculinity as reformulated by Connell and Messerschmidt. Following this, the author examines selected studies to illustrate how Hegemonic Masculinity has been appropriated differently, how this dissimilarity is significant for the production of gendered knowledge, and how several new directions in the appropriations extend gendered knowledge on Hegemonic Masculinity. Finally, the author discusses the relevance of all his conclusions to the wider debates over the concept of Hegemonic Masculinity and posits how these conclusions arguably impact future feminist/gend...
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Hegemonic Masculinity rethinking the concept
Gender & Society, 2005Co-Authors: Raewyn Connell, James W MesserschmidtAbstract:The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity has influenced gender studies across many academic fields but has also attracted serious criticism. The authors trace the origin of the concept in a convergence of ideas in the early 1980s and map the ways it was applied when research on men and masculinities expanded. Evaluating the principal criticisms, the authors defend the underlying concept of Masculinity, which in most research use is neither reified nor essentialist. However, the criticism of trait models of gender and rigid typologies is sound. The treatment of the subject in research on Hegemonic Masculinity can be improved with the aid of recent psychological models, although limits to discursive flexibility must be recognized. The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity does not equate to a model of social reproduction; we need to recognize social struggles in which subordinated masculinities influence dominant forms. Finally, the authors review what has been confirmed from early formulations (the idea of multiple...
Graham Lindegger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hegemonic Masculinity combining theory and practice in gender interventions
Culture Health & Sexuality, 2015Co-Authors: Rachel Jewkes, Graham Lindegger, Robert Morrell, Jeff Hearn, Emma Lundqvist, David Blackbeard, Michael Quayle, Yandisa SikweyiyaAbstract:The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity has been used in gender studies since the early-1980s to explain men’s power over women. Stressing the legitimating power of consent (rather than crude physical or political power to ensure submission), it has been used to explain men’s health behaviours and the use of violence. Gender activists and others seeking to change men’s relations with women have mobilised the concept of Hegemonic Masculinity in interventions, but the links between gender theory and activism have often not been explored. The translation of ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’ into interventions is little examined. We show how, in South Africa and Sweden, the concept has been used to inform theoretically-based gender interventions and to ensure that men are brought into broader social efforts to build gender equity. We discuss the practical translational challenges of using gender theory broadly, and Hegemonic Masculinity in particular, in a Swedish case study, of the intervention Machofabriken [The Macho Factory], and illustrate how the concept is brought to life in this activist work with men. The concept has considerable practical application in developing a sustainable praxis of theoretically grounded interventions that are more likely to have enduring effect, but evaluating broader societal change in Hegemonic Masculinity remains an enduring challenge.
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Hegemonic Masculinity/Masculinities in South Africa Culture, Power, and Gender Politics
Men and Masculinities, 2012Co-Authors: Robert Morrell, Rachel Jewkes, Graham LindeggerAbstract:The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity has had a profound impact on gender activism and has been taken up particularly in health interventions. The concept was part of a conceptual gendered vocabulary about men which opened up analytical space for research on Masculinity and prompted a generation of gender interventions with men. Academic work focused primarily on relations between men, to the neglect of relations with women, while paradoxically acknowledging the power that men had over women. Interventions that drew on theories of masculinities focused on the content of Hegemonic Masculinity, identifying hegemony with oppressive attitudes and practices. Hegemonic Masculinity was considered singular and universal, with little acknowledgment given to research-based work that argued for a model of multiple Hegemonic masculinities. An unintended consequence of efforts to promote gender equity through a focus on men and hegemony has been a recent popular discursive backlash. In this, Jacob Zuma and Julius Malem...
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Hegemonic Masculinity masculinities in south africa culture power and gender politics
Men and Masculinities, 2012Co-Authors: Robert Morrell, Rachel Jewkes, Graham LindeggerAbstract:The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity has had a profound impact on gender activism and has been taken up particularly in health interventions. The concept was part of a conceptual gendered vocabulary about men which opened up analytical space for research on Masculinity and prompted a generation of gender interventions with men. Academic work focused primarily on relations between men, to the neglect of relations with women, while paradoxically acknowledging the power that men had over women. Interventions that drew on theories of masculinities focused on the content of Hegemonic Masculinity, identifying hegemony with oppressive attitudes and practices. Hegemonic Masculinity was considered singular and universal, with little acknowledgment given to research-based work that argued for a model of multiple Hegemonic masculinities. An unintended consequence of efforts to promote gender equity through a focus on men and hegemony has been a recent popular discursive backlash. In this, Jacob Zuma and Julius Malem...
Chang-hun Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Institutionalized Hegemonic Masculinity and Rape by United States Army Personnel in South Korea: A Perspective on Military Subculture
Asian Journal of Criminology, 2010Co-Authors: Chang-hun LeeAbstract:The aims of this study are threefold: (1) to illustrate an institutionalization process of Hegemonic Masculinity, (2) to show how this process can be applied to rape incidents in South Korea, and (3) to suggest what needs to be done in the future. Based on previous studies of Hegemonic Masculinity, this study first sets the stage by illustrating how the isomorphism with Hegemonic Masculinity is achieved and maintained through culturalization and institutionalization among male soldiers. Based on this theoretical framework, this study shows limitations in the traditional approach to military crime, and then applies the current framework to explain higher rate of rape incidents committed by United States Army personnel stationed in South Korea. Finally, this study suggests what needs to be done in terms of empirical investigation of military rape in different countries. This study concludes that the institutionalized Hegemonic Masculinity and the reproduction of masculine organizations are possible major contributing factors to the higher rate of rape incidents.
Clare Bartholomaeus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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COLLUDING WITH OR CHALLENGING Hegemonic Masculinity?: Examining Primary School Boys' Plural Gender Practices
Australian Feminist Studies, 2013Co-Authors: Clare BartholomaeusAbstract:Abstract Research about masculinities in schools often focuses on Hegemonic Masculinity. This can have the effect of reinforcing the privilege associated with Hegemonic Masculinity, as well as overlooking differences amongst boys and the plural practices individual boys engage in. Drawing on empirical research in two South Australian primary schools with students aged 6–7 and 11–13, this article examines the complex ways in which boys engaged in plural gender practices. Practices differing from a discourse of (local) Hegemonic Masculinity related to three key themes: displaying ‘intelligence’ and being studious; involvement in traditionally ‘feminine’ activities; and being caring, loving family and friends, and engaging in cross-gender friendships. This article utilises these themes to argue that practices could work alongside or present challenges to practices relating to a discourse of Hegemonic Masculinity. An examination of how age and masculinities interweave suggests that a divide between Hegemonic ...
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‘I’m not allowed wrestling stuff’: Hegemonic Masculinity and primary school boys
Journal of Sociology, 2012Co-Authors: Clare BartholomaeusAbstract:Hegemonic Masculinity is Connell’s key concept in a hierarchical framework of masculinities which has had a significant influence on thinking about gender. This article draws on Connell’s theories, previous research and my empirical research to argue that there are limitations to using the concept of Hegemonic Masculinity, and even Hegemonic masculinities, when examining boys and Masculinity. Boys are rarely mentioned in definitions and theoretical writing about Hegemonic Masculinity, yet much research examining primary school boys and Masculinity uncritically draws on the concept. My research in Australia with 6- and 7-year-old children found that boys had limited access to Hegemonic Masculinity. As a possible explanation for its usage by researchers with primary school boys, I explore the potential usefulness of multiple and local Hegemonic masculinities.
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i m not allowed wrestling stuff Hegemonic Masculinity and primary school boys
Journal of Sociology, 2012Co-Authors: Clare BartholomaeusAbstract:Hegemonic Masculinity is Connell’s key concept in a hierarchical framework of masculinities which has had a significant influence on thinking about gender. This article draws on Connell’s theories, previous research and my empirical research to argue that there are limitations to using the concept of Hegemonic Masculinity, and even Hegemonic masculinities, when examining boys and Masculinity. Boys are rarely mentioned in definitions and theoretical writing about Hegemonic Masculinity, yet much research examining primary school boys and Masculinity uncritically draws on the concept. My research in Australia with 6- and 7-year-old children found that boys had limited access to Hegemonic Masculinity. As a possible explanation for its usage by researchers with primary school boys, I explore the potential usefulness of multiple and local Hegemonic masculinities.
Debra Schleef - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Identity Transformation, Hegemonic Masculinity and Research on Professionalization
Sociology Compass, 2010Co-Authors: Debra SchleefAbstract:Despite more than two decades of antidiscrimination policies, diversity measures, and greater gender equality in graduate school admissions, recent studies reveal that Hegemonic Masculinity remains dominant in the socialization processes common to most professions. Hegemonic Masculinity refers to the current dominant form of Masculinity, which is a culturally idealized form of behavior that creates and reinforces institutions of male dominance over women and other men, including working class and men of color (Connell, Masculinities, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2005). These socialization processes involve the transformation of cognitive skills, the inculcation of ethical values, and emotions. I address the masculine nature of professionalization and suggest that centering on the ‘female’ professions in future research would provoke important questions about alternatives to standard ‘male’ forms of professionalization. I conclude by identifying directions for future research, particularly using action research to examine resistance and the institutionalization of inequalities in the professions.