2018
DOI: 10.1177/0891243218774495
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(Re)Fashioning Masculinity: Social Identity and Context in Men’s Hybrid Masculinities through Dress

Abstract: Modern Western society has framed fashion in opposition to hegemonic masculinity. However, fashion functions as a principal means by which men’s visible gender identities are established as not only different from women but also from other men. This article draws on the concept of hybrid masculinities and on wardrobe interviews with Canadian men across social identities to explore how men enact masculinities through dress. I illustrate three ways men do hybrid masculinities by selecting, styling, and wearing c… Show more

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“…Other research also suggests that some urban and suburban men have more flexibility than rural men in how they enact masculinity. Some urban men, for instance, reframe certain beauty and fashion practices as compatible with masculinity (Barry 2018;Barry and Weiner 2019;Barber 2008Barber , 2016. Similarly, some young straight urban men-especially men who are white and middle-class-adopt certain practices often associated with gay men (Bridges 2014).…”
Section: Differences Between Rural Suburban and Urban Masculinitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other research also suggests that some urban and suburban men have more flexibility than rural men in how they enact masculinity. Some urban men, for instance, reframe certain beauty and fashion practices as compatible with masculinity (Barry 2018;Barry and Weiner 2019;Barber 2008Barber , 2016. Similarly, some young straight urban men-especially men who are white and middle-class-adopt certain practices often associated with gay men (Bridges 2014).…”
Section: Differences Between Rural Suburban and Urban Masculinitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…During worship, those believing them as female will wear mukena, and those believing them as male will wear a sarong, koko shirt, and peci. Some transgender santris also wear Muslimah dressing such as gamis and veil in their daily life (Foucault & Miskowiec, 1986;Balzer, 2004;Smith & Leavy, 2008;Barry, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Klepp and Bjerck (2014) define this study as a methodology of material culture because it blends quantitative and qualitative approaches and allows for a combination of various methods such as interview, fieldwork, and inventory record (p. 375). The wardrobe method was used by Pole (2007) to study children's clothing and by Barry (2018) to explore men's masculine identities. Banim and Guy (2001) included wardrobe interviews as part of a three-method research study examining women's relationship with their clothes.…”
Section: Wardrobe Studymentioning
confidence: 99%