Trans masculinities

Gottzén, Lucas; Straube, Wibke

doi:10.1080/18902138.2016.1262056

Cited by 18 publications

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“…On the other hand, many participants perceived that they did not experience male privilege because they did not meet the required gender norms. These findings further support observations that masculinities and male privilege are based on perceived embodiment and performativity of the social construct of maleness (Aboim & Vasconcelos, 2021; Gottzén & Straube, 2016). Other trans masculine individuals may perceive that their gender identity and expression, and intersections with race and other social identities, relegate them to an outsider status in the majority of gendered communities and spaces (Weiss, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“Male privilege doesn’t lift the social status of all men in the same way”: Trans masculine individuals’ lived experiences of male privilege in the United States.

Clements¹,

Derr²,

Rostosky³

2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Masculinities and male privilege may be experienced differently by individuals depending on their intersecting identities, including identities related to gender, race, and sexuality. Trans masculine individuals in the United States may be important informants about the experience of male privilege because their unique psychosocial experiences and gender identity development in a patriarchal society allow observation, insight, and critical reflection not available to cisgender people. Using a standpoint theoretical framework, we explored the lived experiences of male privilege as described by trans masculine individuals (N = 227, M = 26.97, SD = 6.90) who responded to an open-ended prompt on a larger online survey. Using thematic analysis, the research team identified five themes that summarized participants’ perceptions: (a) I feel safer; (b) I am assumed to be competent; (c) I am free of traditional female gender role expectations; (d) I am “one of the boys”; and (e) I don’t experience male privilege. Participants’ attributed their experiences to others’ perceptions of their masculine appearance, gender expression, and gender role performance. These experiences involved psychosocial costs as well as benefits, most notably changes in relationships with women and important communities of support. Some participants noted that their other marginalized identities such as race and sexuality attenuated their experiences of male privilege. Together these findings illustrate the social construction of masculinities and male privilege in everyday interactions while further disentangling these concepts from essentialist assumptions of a biologically based gender binary.

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confidence: 86%

“Male privilege doesn’t lift the social status of all men in the same way”: Trans masculine individuals’ lived experiences of male privilege in the United States.

Clements¹,

Derr²,

Rostosky³

2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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“…Secondly, it follows the call for more situated accounts of trans experiences ‘in context’ (Muhr et al., 2016). The study of trans men at work is under‐explored and although trans men have received wider attention in queer and trans ‐studies around ‘doing gender’ (West & Zimmerman, 1987) it remains marginalized in the context of work (Thanem, 2011) and is often excluded in studies of masculinity (Green, 2005; Raun, 2016; Gottzén & Straube, 2017, but see; Halberstam, 1998; Hoppe, 2008). Consequently, our understanding of how trans men can accomplish their gender at work, and how this informs our understanding of (trans) masculinity as well as workplace practices, is limited in a rapidly changing context with respect to transgender awareness in the workplace.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trans men doing gender at work

Jeanes

Janes

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article we explore the practices of trans men in England, undertaken to accomplish gender in the workplace, recognizing the importance of a 'situated' analysis incorporating context and life history. We find trans men simultaneously to conform and challenge masculinity, informed both by preference and necessity in order to survive and progress at work, which in turn impacts the potential for any male advantage that may be enjoyed. We note that the more coherently masculine a trans man is, the less 'trouble' is caused by his gender (trans masculinity). We demonstrate that they often have to adjust their gender practices and/or workplace to secure or progress at work but also retain a capacity to trouble the gender binary (trans masculinity). We consider the implications for trans men at work.

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“…Inspired by the narratives of the trans-men and trans-masculine individuals interviewed in two European countries (the United Kingdom and Portugal), we explore how individuals produce masculinity. Conceptual connections between critical masculinity studies and trans-masculinities have yet to come of age (e.g., Gottzén and Straube 2016;Abelson 2014Abelson , 2019. Through cross-fertilization between critical masculinity studies and trans-masculinities-two theoretical fields not yet full connected-we seek to overcome biologicist and essentialist biases that persist in many definitions of masculinity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment

Aboim

Vasconcelos

2021

Men and Masculinities

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Confronted with the centrality of the body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in the United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central for doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back to the political and sociological agendas, we propose that bodily-reflexive practice is a concept suited to account for the production of trans-masculinities. Although multiple, the journeys of trans-masculine individuals demonstrate how bodily experiences shape and redefine masculinities in ways that illuminate the nexus between bodies, embodiments, and discursive enactments of masculinity. Rather than oppositions between bodily conformity to and transgression of the norms of hegemonic masculinity, often encountered in idealizations of the medicalized transsexual against the genderqueer rebel, lived bodily experiences shape masculinities beyond linear oppositions. Tensions between natural and technological, material and discursive, or feminine and masculine were keys for understanding trans-masculine narratives about the body, embodiment, and identity.

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Trans masculinities

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

“Male privilege doesn’t lift the social status of all men in the same way”: Trans masculine individuals’ lived experiences of male privilege in the United States.

“Male privilege doesn’t lift the social status of all men in the same way”: Trans masculine individuals’ lived experiences of male privilege in the United States.

Trans men doing gender at work

What does it Mean to be a Man? Trans Masculinities, Bodily Practices, and Reflexive Embodiment

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