Doing Masculinity in a Mental Hospital

Leyser, Ophra

doi:10.1177/0891241603032003004

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“…Much research has been done on the ways in which the gender identities people adopt can shape their interactions and choices (Elson 2003;Leyser 2003;Martin 2003;Mason-Schrock 1996). Researchers have explored mechanisms through which ideas about gender are communicated culturally, maintained socially, and internalized by women; these mechanisms-what some have called ''technologies of gender''-serve to structure women's selves as well as create a connection between women (de Lauretis 1987;Foucault 1979;Martin 2003).…”

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LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN:NEGOTIATING COLLECTIVE GENDER IDENTITY IN AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD

Miller

2007

Sociological Spectrum

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This article examines how women visiting an alternative, politicized community interact with the construction of womanhood presented in that context. The concept of collective gender identity is suggested as a tool for considering how ideas about what it means to be a woman (or a man) can be communicated and negotiated in microlevel interactions within social movements. The case examined here, immersion courses on midwifery in an alternative community, illustrates the use of environmental, instrumental, and social technologies to transmit a particular construction of womanhood. Findings point to ways women enrolled in these intensive courses respond to the particular meaning of gender embraced by the community. This research raises questions about the place of shared gender identity in a group context and the possible ties between that identity and larger movement dynamics.The meaning of being a woman (or a man) is established and maintained through complex processes of interaction. Women negotiate a sense of self amid various cultural understandings about gender, including the images and ideas found in mainstream media culture as well as other expectations of friends, family, and peers (

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Miller

2007

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“…Context and environment can dictate the resources that men do or do not have in engaging and navigating this process, as studies of gendered organizations have repeatedly shown (Acker 1990;Britton 2000;Leyser 2003). Context and environment can dictate the resources that men do or do not have in engaging and navigating this process, as studies of gendered organizations have repeatedly shown (Acker 1990;Britton 2000;Leyser 2003).…”

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“An Air of Expectancy”

Grundy¹

2012

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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43This qualitative study explores formations of masculinity among students at a historically black all-male college, offering insights into how the institution crafts the manhood of its students in accordance with gender and class ideologies about black male respectability, heteronormativity, and male hegemony. While a plethora of studies on poverty, deviance, and marginalization have highlighted black men "in crisis," this article examines middle-class black men and explores sites of conflict and difference for this latter group. Three critical insights into middle-class black masculinity are revealed by this approach: first, that men are institutionally "branded" through class and gender ideologies; second, that the exceptionality of high-achieving black men is politicized to endorse class conflict with other black men; and finally, that sexuality and class performances are inseparably linked through men's sexual consumption of black women.

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“…These headings present the paper's empirical theme and are similar to the article's title. Thus, for example, the Data section heading of Leyser's (2003) study of Doing Masculinity in a Mental Hospital is “Gendered Life at Marion Center.”Eder's (1985) study of The Cycle of Popularity: Interpersonal Relations among Female Adolescents employed “The Development of a Stratification System” to head its Data section. Our article (Adler, Kless, and Adler 1992) on Socialization to Gender Roles used two A‐level headings, “Boys' Popularity Variables” and “Girls' Popularity Variables,” to organize the Data section.…”

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Of Rhetoric and Representation: The Four Faces of Ethnography

Adler

2008

The Sociological Quarterly

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Influenced by the new literary movement and postmodernism, in the 1990s sociologists began to reflexively examine their writings as texts, looking critically at the way they shape reality and articulate their descriptions and conceptualizations. Advancing this thread, in our presidential address we offer an overarching analysis of ethnographic writing, identifying four current genres and deconstructing their rhetoric: classical, mainstream, postmodern, and public ethnography. We focus on the differences in their epistemological, organizational, locational, and stylistic self-presentations with an eye toward better understanding how these speak to their intended audiences, both within and outside of the discipline.As an outgrowth of the merging of the humanities and the social sciences, the practice of identifying tropes within sociological genres grew in the 1980s. Influenced by literary criticism, ethnographers, in particular, became involved in a reflexive movement, directing their gaze at the process of how they construct and analyze their texts. This has been called the "linguistic turn" in ethnography. Denzin andLincoln (1994, 2000) have articulated several "moments" in this reflexive process, of which the three most influential were the "blurred genres" period (Geertz 1973(Geertz , 1983 in which the social sciences turned to the humanities for models, theories, and methods of analysis; the "crisis of representation" (Clifford and Marcus 1986;Marcus and Fischer 1986;Geertz 1988;Van Maanen 1995) that deepened the reflexive thrust in research and writing and challenged the conventions of ethnographic realism; and the "crisis of legitimacy" (Atkinson 1990;Lincoln and Guba 1990;Hammersley 1992;Smith 1992) in which ethnographers called into question the link between experience and text. These movements questioned the authority and accuracy of sociological texts, challenging researchers and writers to examine their politics and rhetoric. Issues of representation sensitized ethnographers to multiple, possibly conflicting interpretations of reality and the problems of voice (Hertz 1997), especially as some people and the interpretations they offered might be privileged over others.We focus in this Address on the linguistic turn in ethnography both because of our biographies and because these ideas have received their greatest foment in the ethnographic realm of our discipline. Vidich and Lyman (1994:25) have noted that ethnography means "the science devoted to describing ways of life of humankind." One of the

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Doing Masculinity in a Mental Hospital

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN:NEGOTIATING COLLECTIVE GENDER IDENTITY IN AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD

LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN:NEGOTIATING COLLECTIVE GENDER IDENTITY IN AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD

“An Air of Expectancy”

Of Rhetoric and Representation: The Four Faces of Ethnography

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