„Mir geht es gut!“. Gesundheitsvorstellungen von Männern in der Schweiz. Ergebnisse aus einem empirischen Projekt

Abstract

Auf der Suche nach Erklärungen für den "gender gap" in den unterschiedlichen Lebenserwartungen von Männern und Frauen geraten vermehrt Zusammenhänge von Gesundheitshandeln und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in den Blick. Der Artikel präsentiert Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Interview-Studie mit 40 (Schweizer) Männern zwischen 30 und 60 Jahren zu subjektiven Gesundheitsvorstellungen und Gesundheitshandeln. Entlang ausgewählter Thematisierungsweisen zu Leistungsfähigkeit, der Bedeutung von körperlicher Fitness, dem Umgang mit Gefühlen und mit Schmerz analysiert der Beitrag Zusammenhänge zwischen Gesundheitsvorstellungen und alten und neuen Männlichkeitskonstruktionen.

Cultural Repertoires and Situated Selections as an Alternative Framework to Hegemonic Masculinities: Findings From Eswatini

“…Many studies on men and health use the concept of hegemonic masculinities with the intention of improving the health-seeking behavior of men. This is done through various means: stressing men’s “agency, autonomy and self-reliance” ( Sloan et al, 2010 , p. 799), depicting alternative masculinities, or challenging dominant masculinities ( Bowleg, 2004 ; MacPhail, 2003 ), showing that masculinities are in flux with new and old concepts being held by men ( Wehner et al, 2015 ) or intending to improve the understanding of health personnel of men’s needs ( Siqueira et al, 2014 ). Applied to HIV, the concept of hegemonic masculinities has been drawn upon to understand male risk-taking behavior with a view to reducing it ( Bowleg, 2004 ; Brown et al, 2005 , 2011 ; Ganle, 2016 ; Morrell et al., 2012 ; Nyanzi et al, 2009 ; Simpson, 2007 ).…”

“…Since the 1980s, the study of men and masculinities has been chiefly influenced by Connell ( Connell, 1998 , 2005 ; Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005 ; Kessler et al., 1985 ; Nascimento & Connell, 2017 ). In particular, Connell’s concept of a hierarchy of masculinities, with “hegemonic masculinities” at its pinnacle ( Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005 ), has been applied widely to study the behavior of men in various academic disciplines such as educational studies ( Martino, 1995 ; Skelton, 1993 ), social studies ( Beasley, 2008 ; Hirsch & Kachtan, 2018 ; Kimmel, 1990 ), and public health, where the concept of hegemonic masculinities is often employed to examine and understand the risk-taking or the (non)-health-seeking behavior of men ( Courtenay, 2000 ; Fleming et al., 2019 ; Seymour-Smith et al, 2002 ; Wehner et al, 2015 ). For example, HIV-infected men typically link to the health care system in the advanced stages of infection ( Drain et al, 2013 ) as many perceive health care-seeking behavior as less “manly” ( Adams & Zamberia, 2017 ; Siu et al, 2013 ).…”