Masculinities and the Law

Cooper, Frank Rudy; McGinley, Ann C.; Kimmel, Michael S.

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“…58 Perhaps less obvious is the variability within the category of masculinity: as many scholars have argued and demonstrated, there exist multiple masculinities that are highly changeable, vary across and within cultures as well as institutional contexts, and interact with other elastic aspects of identity in ways that are neither simple nor predictable. 59 Yet "all masculinities are not created equal," and the extent to which one prevails over others is, like the precedence of masculinity over femininity, a matter of power rather than a reflection of nature: it is secured through vigilant policing of unacceptable desires, unmanly templates and threatening disruptions. 60 So understood, there is not only a plurality of contingent conceptions of manhood but also a hierarchy of masculinities.…”

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Humiliation and the Political Mobilization of Masculinity

Euben

2015

Political Theory

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Islamist rhetoric about the humiliation of Islam and American rhetoric about national humiliation have been energized by disparate events in recent years, from the photographs of American soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia to the invasion of Iraq, the “Innocence of Muslims” video to the attacks on 9/11. At the same time, there’s been an explosion of scholarship on humiliation as a driver of international conflict and political violence in general, and in relation to the bodies and minds of Muslims in particular. The link between humiliation and Muslims is thus a co-production between Islamists who continually invoke it and scholars from various disciplines and regions who regularly posit it. Yet there’s been very little analysis of humiliation in Islamist discourse; minimal effort to anatomize the ways in which this experience of humiliation is constructed to necessitate particular kinds of retaliatory action; and no attempt to theorize more broadly about patterns and discontinuities in how different rhetorics construct humiliation. This article takes up the following questions: What is the substantive content of humiliation in such rhetoric and analysis? Do these different rhetorics of humiliation articulate the same understanding of it, as an act and an experience? What does close analysis of Islamist discourse on humiliation in comparative perspective reveal about the political stakes and affective resonances articulated and energized by it in this particular moment in history? Finally, what do the answers to these questions say about the reach and limits of the dominant account of humiliation as the violated dignity or injured self-respect of a generic individual?

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Humiliation and the Political Mobilization of Masculinity

Euben

2015

Political Theory

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“…McGinley ( 2004 , 2019 ) noted that interpretations of behavior are never arbitrary; factors such as gender, race, and class influence attributions of performance and what is considered appropriate or inappropriate behavior. Indeed, consider how people may have responded had Brett Kavanaugh been Brandi Kavanaugh, and had Brandi responded to the accusations in the same way Brett did.…”

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Does Leader Character Have a Gender?

2022

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Virtues and character strengths are often assumed to be universal, considered equally important to individuals across cultures, religions, racial-ethnic groups, and genders. The results of our surveys and laboratory studies, however, bring to light subtle yet consistent gender differences in the importance attributed to character in leadership: women considered character to be more important to successful leadership in business than did men, and women had higher expectations that individuals should demonstrate character in a new leadership role. Further, the gender of the research participant affected character ratings such that male respondents viewed a female leader who exhibited agentic behaviors in a professionally challenging situation less positively than a male leader who displayed the same agentic behaviors. The data also showed that male participants rated almost every dimension of character displayed by the female leader lower than did female participants. Our findings suggest that the question as to what extent gender differences may bias the assessment of virtues and character strengths is an important one, and one for which the practical implications for individuals in organizations need to be studied in more detail.

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Old Southern Codes in New Legal Bottles? Sexual Harassment, Race, and Masculinity

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Historically, old southern codes were used to regulate the interactions between black males and white females. We draw parallels between these codes and current sexual harassment laws to examine the perceptions of sexual behavior that crosses racial lines. Specifically, we examine how white and black female targets perceived and reacted to the behavior of males of the same and different race than their own. Our results indicate that white women perceive the behavior committed by a man of another race as more sexually harassing than when a white male commits the behavior. Conversely, black women perceive the behavior committed by black men as more sexually harassing than when a man of a different race engages in the same behavior. Further, a similar pattern emerges for reporting sexual harassment. Implications for research and the management of sexual harassment are discussed.

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Masculinities and the Law

Cited by 17 publications

References 63 publications

Humiliation and the Political Mobilization of Masculinity

Humiliation and the Political Mobilization of Masculinity

Does Leader Character Have a Gender?

Old Southern Codes in New Legal Bottles? Sexual Harassment, Race, and Masculinity

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