Men and masculinities: a continuing debate on change

IF 2.1 Q2 SOCIOLOGY NORMA Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1080/18902138.2021.1891758

Andrea Christofidou

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ABSTRACT One of the debates currently unfolding in the field of critical men and masculinities studies concerns whether and how men and masculinities are changing. Engaging in critical discussions with scholars working with theorizations of inclusive and hybrid masculinities, this article aims to move these discussions, and relevant research, forward. The article canvasses how scholars discuss ‘change’ towards inclusive and hybrid masculinities, the conditions that allegedly facilitate this, and their views regarding wider systems of inequality and hierarchies between men and women, and among men. The article suggests that to understand change in all its complexity, more attention should be placed on the underlying conditions that encourage change among some men. It further proposes a multi-layered intersectional analysis that takes into careful consideration how axes of social identity intersect and affect opportunities for engagement with more inclusive or hybrid masculinities, and highlights the important role that contextual, situational, and interactional conditions may play in affecting the repertoire of possible manifestations and configurations of masculinity.

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男人和男子气概:关于变革的持续辩论

摘要当前在批判性男性和男性气质研究领域展开的争论之一涉及男性和男性气概是否以及如何发生变化。本文与研究包容性和混合性男性气质理论的学者进行了批判性讨论，旨在推动这些讨论和相关研究向前发展。这篇文章探讨了学者们如何讨论向包容和混合的男性气质“转变”，据称促成这一转变的条件，以及他们对男女之间以及男性之间更广泛的不平等和等级制度的看法。这篇文章建议，要理解变革的复杂性，就应该更多地关注鼓励一些男性变革的潜在条件。它进一步提出了一种多层次的交叉分析，仔细考虑了社会认同的轴心如何交叉并影响与更具包容性或混合性的男性交往的机会，并强调了情境、情境、，互动条件可能会影响男性气质的可能表现和配置。

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NORMA Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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3.00

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： NORMA is an international journal for high quality research concerning masculinity in its many forms. This is an interdisciplinary journal concerning questions about the body, about social and textual practices, and about men and masculinities in social structures. We aim to advance theory and methods in this field. We hope to present new themes for critical studies of men and masculinities, and develop new approaches to ''intersections'' with race, sexuality, class and coloniality. We are eager to have conversations about the role of men and boys, and the place of masculinities, in achieving gender equality and social equality. The journal was begun in the Nordic region; we now strongly invite scholarly work from all parts of the world, as well as research about transnational relations and spaces. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Editorial Manager.