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"Sensitive and Real Macho All at the Same Time.".
- Source :
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Men & Masculinities . Oct2007, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p137-152. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- What is the place of romance in young men's lives? Do young men enact a romantic masculinity? This article examines young men's experience of romance and what investments they have in romantic identity. Drawing on a New Zealand-based sample of seventeento nineteen-year-olds, the author investigates the way in which romantic masculinity is evoked during seventeen focus-group discussions. The article explores whether romantic masculinity offers a new form of masculinity in New Zealand and to what extent it departs from hegemonic practices of "hard" masculinity. Its potential as a nonhegemonic form of masculinity that challenges oppressive heterosexual relations is also analyzed. It is argued that the particular expression of romantic masculinity evidenced in this research no longer constitutes a subordinate form of masculinity in New Zealand. Instead, "doing romance" is theorized as being reconfigured within the operation of hegemonic masculinity in a way that highlights the flexibility and stability of these practices of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1097184X
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Men & Masculinities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27037710
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X05284221