Combining hegemonic masculinity and intersectionality

Christensen, Ann-Dorte; Jensen, Sune Qvotrup

doi:10.1080/18902138.2014.892289

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“…Thus patriarchal privileging remains effectively unchallenged and unchanged (Hearn, 1996(Hearn, , 2004(Hearn, , 2014. Although it is theoretically possible that constructions of masculinity may not be based on patriarchal gender relations (Christensen and Jensen, 2014), at least in this small study it was clear that patriarchal privileging underpins them all, although some types do represent new forms of masculinity.…”

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“…Two of the most relevant criticisms involve the absence of a focus on masculinity at the micro level (Christensen and Jensen, 2014), and the initial tendency (reversed by Connell and Messerschmidt, 2005) to fail to focus on hegemonic masculinities at the organisational level. Drawing on data collected as part of a wider cross-national study of the gendering of careers and constructions of excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM disciplines), this article proposes a typology of masculinity among academic and research staff in one university.…”

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Exploration of masculinities in academic organisations: A tentative typology using career and relationship commitment

2015

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In the Irish context and internationally a good deal of attention has been paid to the performance of masculinity among school students. However with a small number of notable exceptions, relatively little attention has been paid to masculinities in academic organisations. Drawing on a qualitative study in one university, this article proposes a tentative typology of masculinities in such an organisation. This typology involves two axes: career commitment and relationship commitment (with respondents classified as strong or weak on each dimension). Four types of masculinities are identified: Type 1: Careerist masculinity: Strong career and weak relationship commitment; Type 2: Enterprising masculinity: Strong career and strong relationship commitment; Type 3: Pure scientific masculinity: Weak career and weak relationship commitment; Type 4: Family oriented breadwinning masculinity: Weak career and strong relationship commitment. The titles careerist masculinity and family oriented breadwinning masculinity reflect generic characteristics. The titles of the other two types reflect the data derived from this particular sample. Since one of the important contributions of this article is an understanding of masculinities in an academic organisation, labels Downloaded from O'Connor et al. 529 which relate to that context have been used. Although three of these types modify hegemonic careerist masculinity, they all reflect the persistence of an underlying system of male privileging in the changing landscape of higher education. This typology is seen as potentially having implications for theories and practices of motivation and management in academic organisations.

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Exploration of masculinities in academic organisations: A tentative typology using career and relationship commitment

2015

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“…The duality of this definition has come under significant critical scrutiny over the years (see, e.g., Groes-Green 2012; Christensen & Jensen 2014 for reviews) with many scholars arguing that the two sides of the definition need to be de-linked. Christensen & Jensen (2014), for example, suggest a framework that separates the domination of some types of men over others (internal hegemony) from the domination of men over women (external hegemony), and argue for an empirically-driven intersectional approach to both. Similarly, Hearn & Morell (2012) describe the possibility of there being multiple hegemonies that exist at different levels of social organisation and that are linked to the exercise of particular types of power.…”

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‘That’s what I call a man’

Baker

Levon

2016

Gender and Language

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According to Connell (1995), "being a man" involves actively positioning one's self in relation to culturally dominant images of masculinity. Yet, crucially, these images change depending on the social and historical context. In this paper, we examine contemporary discourses of masculinity as they are represented in the British press. In particular, we focus on the ways in which masculine representations are both racialized and classed, and how they are positioned in relation to one another within a broader ideological field of gender and power. Analyses are based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a large corpus (44.1 million words) of newspaper articles on masculinity that appeared in the UK between 2003 and 2011. Our findings underscore the importance of adopting an intersectional approach to the study of language and masculinity, and provide support for recent critical re-evaluations of the foundational concept of hegemonic masculinity.

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“…The concept has been deployed in understanding gendered relations that not only construct masculinity in a singular and hegemonic way but also how such constructs are in turn used to perpetuate and maintain these relations of power and inequality. The concept has since been applied by researchers to demonstrate intersections of masculinity with other social categories (Christensen and Jensen 2014) to render some forms of masculinity more powerful than others.…”

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'So I decided not to invade straight black men's space': exploring heteronormative spaces on campus

Kiguwa

Langa²

2017

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Challenging heteronormative spaces has been identified as one of the key difficulties facing the issue of destabilisation of deeply entrenched gendered and sexual practices and spaces within institutional contexts. In a university context, that includes a hegemonic masculine student residence culture; this may be even more challenging and disrupting to how one mediates social and academic space. Challenging includes awareness of how one may be able to challenge, as well as moments when one is not able to challenge. Strategies of resistance may be adopted that further reinforce gay male students' participation in academic space. Through qualitative analysis of a group of gay male students living in residence at a South African university, we explore these students' movement through different spaces on campus within the residences. Using performative theory and the concept of hegemonic masculinity, the findings highlight sexuality's intersection with other identities both in the experience of and resistance to victimisation.

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Combining hegemonic masculinity and intersectionality

Cited by 159 publications

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Exploration of masculinities in academic organisations: A tentative typology using career and relationship commitment

Exploration of masculinities in academic organisations: A tentative typology using career and relationship commitment

‘That’s what I call a man’

'So I decided not to invade straight black men's space': exploring heteronormative spaces on campus

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