What Threatens, Defines: Tracing the Symbolic Boundaries of Contemporary Masculinity

“Not Your Average Nerd”: Masculinities, Privilege, and Academic Effort at an Elite University

“…These codes were assessed independently of each other such that participants could be coded as being ambivalent if they both embraced and rejected academic effort. Because young men often approve of academic success while simultaneously rejecting effort (Morris 2012;Munsch and Gruys 2018), neither worrying about grades nor interacting with professors was sufficient for a participant to be coded as embracing effort. Indeed, several participants reported avoiding homework but also bragged about negotiating with instructors for higher grades.…”

“…In this framework, hegemonic masculinity occupies the most esteemed position in a particular society and is consistently characterized as dominant over both women and other men. In contemporary Western society, the hegemonic ideal has been characterized as straight, cisgender, white, wealthy, and physically powerful (Munsch and Gruys 2018;Schrock and Schwalbe 2009). However, very few men, if any, fully embody the hegemonic standard and some actively contest it (Connell and Messerschmidt 2005;Messner 1997).…”

“…Whereas the aforementioned theory provides a framework for conceptualizing contemporary gender hierarchies, the emerging hybrid masculinities literature seeks to understand the social processes that allow these hierarchies to persist, particularly in light of growing cultural condemnation of white male privilege. Hybrid masculinity entails men's selective incorporation of "bits and pieces" of femininities and/or "other" masculinities into their gender performances (Bridges 2010(Bridges , 2014Bridges and Pascoe 2014;Lamont 2015;Messner 2007;Munsch and Gruys 2018;Young 2017). In doing so, privileged men seemingly adopt more inclusive gender ideologies and discursively distance themselves from hegemonic masculinity.…”

“…In the wake of recent social and economic changes that challenge traditional understandings of ideal masculinity, much contemporary research on masculinities asks if hegemonic masculinity continues to perpetuate gender inequality or if masculinity is becoming more inclusive (e.g., Munsch and Gruys 2018). A growing body of scholarship on hybrid masculinities (Bridges 2010(Bridges , 2014Bridges and Pascoe 2014;Messner 2007) argues that in the face of growing awareness and criticism of white male privilege (Bridges, Forthcoming), privileged men have found ways to discursively present themselves as socially progressive while simultaneously upholding existing power structures.…”

Гендерная Специфика Жизненных Планов Молодежи Дальнего Востока России

“…Современная модель маскулинности связана с эгалитарными нормами, установками на равноправие, партнерство, эмоциональную чувствительность и открытость [Kimmel, 2008;Кон, 2011;Коннелл, 2015;Хитрук, 2018;Munsch, Gruys, 2018].…”