Pub Date : 2022-08-13DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221119793
Amporn Jirattikorn, A. Tangmunkongvorakul, Arratee Ayuttacorn
The Thai sex industry sector catering to sex between men has recently shifted to a predominately migrant workforce, particularly in northern part of the country. The majority of sex worker men in Chiang Mai, a metropolitan center in northern Thailand, are Shan migrants from Myanmar. This research explores the lives of Shan men engaged in sex work in Chiang Mai, examining how engaging with queer sexual commodification shapes their gender and sexual identities. As Shan sex worker men in this research identify as heterosexual men, selling sex to men might impact their sense of (hetero)masculinity. Based on 20 in-depth interviews with Shan migrant sex worker men living and working in Chiang Mai city, this research explores, on the one hand, how Shan sex worker men negotiate, redefine, and reconstruct their masculinities, and on the other, how the identities of being a masculine man, sex worker, and non-citizen migrant intersect and shape their experiences and identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221114159
M. Vivi, A. Hermans
In light of gendered dynamics complicating masculine adoption of self-driving and electric vehicles (EV), we examine how Tesla’s video consumer stories envision masculinities within sociotechnical systems of automobility, exploring how corporate representations co-construct drivers and vehicles in gendered ways. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we show how the driver-car appropriates movement as a work of raced, gendered, age-dependent, and classed culture: EVs validate energy-soaked lifestyles in an age of climate change, enabling “green” enactments of fast, aggressive, and reckless styles of hegemonic driving performed by ecomodern masculinities; over-masculinized dynamics of techno-eroticism forge automated vehicles (AV) as technologically-advanced devices, crystallizing fantasies of men’s hegemonic love for technology within drivers’ mobility patterns. Tesla’s narratives sketch a future of mobility dominated by gendered sociotechnical adjustments, where neither energy-based nor technology-based reconfigurations of automobility spark critical conversations around reconfigurations of “behind-the-wheel” masculinities, leaving unquestioned what it means for them to demand space, speed, and comfort.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221098723
M. Khalaf, Manuel Contreras-Urbina, Maureen Murphy, M. Ellsberg
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women and girls (VAWG). Research has shown that gender inequitable attitudes, economic stressors, and armed conflict are among the many risk factors for IPV. Armed conflict can leave women and girls even more vulnerable to gender-based violence and create a context in which hegemonic masculinity may escalate different forms of VAWG. In South Sudan, a country that has been affected by continued armed conflicts, more than half of ever-partnered women and girls have reported experiencing physical or sexual IPV. This study reports on two population-based surveys targeting women and men in South Sudan. Logistic regression analyses were conducted using a sub-sample of ever-partnered men in South Sudan to examine the effect of several predictors on lifetime perpetration of IPV. Findings show a number of factors that were associated with increased odds of ever perpetrating IPV including perpetrating non-partner sexual violence, exposure to non-partner physical violence, and the number of controlling behaviors perpetrated against women partners. These findings suggest that perpetration of IPV is linked to gender inequality and exposure to and normalization of violence. Overall, this research contributes to our in-depth understanding of how experiences of armed conflict may contribute to perpetration of VAWG.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1177/1097184x221105269
Zachary D. Palmer
be more palatable to heterosexuals and how these sensibilities have been increasingly whitened through the erasure and exclusion of people of color. This assimilation has only further complicated the fight for sexual and racial equity, but also as Orne notes, “Equality has not brought liberation. It has merely separated the few to be lifted up, as long as they act like their former oppressors” (p. 102). Home and Community for Queer Men of Color is a strong volume of critical reading for scholars who hope to work at the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender. This book contributes to a growing section of the discipline focused on the emergence and contours of racism, heterosexism, and studies of belonging. Perhaps the most glaring omission or oversight of many chapters is the taken-for-grantedness of masculinity and gender. The book is squarely focused on men of color, but few chapters really contend with the ways that masculinity and gender itself is constituted in the intersection of race and sexuality. Chapters throughout will be useful as course readings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The authors in this volume provide methodological, theoretical, and empirical insights across the many chapters of the book and will serve as wonderful guides to future scholars who will take up the study of experiences of racism and heterosexism. As Han summarizes in the conclusion to the volume, “the authors [in this collection] have centered race in sexuality scholarship and centered sexuality in race scholarship” (pg. 187). All in all, the text is a much-needed intervention, and, to echo Han’s closing thoughts, is a step in the right direction.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-11DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221094618
Kendall Ota
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Pub Date : 2022-05-10DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221098365
A. Shapiro
This article explores the gender complexities of men caught between social power and powerlessness. Specifically, I consider the cases of Jewish men and gay men in the late modern West, two demographics with deep historic ties to both abjection and privilege. Such "in-between-ness” steers many, especially those who are white, cisgender, and/or otherwise privileged, toward what I term liminal complicity, a normative adaptation whereby men embrace manly ideals while disavowing femininity in themselves and others. I synthesize cultural, interactionist, and psychoanalytic literatures on stigma, boundaries, and gender practice to articulate liminal complicity as both an emotional retreat from stigmatization and a rational means of accruing status and redrawing social boundaries. I conduct a comparative-historical analysis of gendered discourses and practices at different historical junctures to show how analogous processes of (1) normative identification, (2) self-transformation, and (3) distinction from and (4) aggression toward feminized others enable historically subordinated men to elevate themselves without disrupting broader systems of domination.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211008519
S. Aboim, Pedro Vasconcelos
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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Pub Date : 2022-03-04DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211064324
Umair Rasheed
them. At the same time, given the social and economic inequalities of the township, the “sex jaros” lament the fact that older wealthier men with cars and material possessions from outside come into the township to woo women and some women choose to engage in relationships with such older men. This heightens the economic, social, and cultural anxieties experienced by poor and working-class black men in Alexandra who struggle to find jobs, often lack qualifications, and have various stigmas attached around living in townships. Further in a chapter on fatherhood, Langa demonstrates how over the course of his long fieldwork several young men became young fathers and had a great desire to support their children and partners even when economic contexts remained challenging. Langa provides us a case study of one young man called Oupa who was a “sex jaro” and never met his own father but was nonetheless determined to be a good father to his own child providing both materially and emotionally. In this way, through a rich longitudinal study, Langa presents a complex picture of young boys becoming young men in a South African township in this book which makes for a powerful and important read. 2 Men and Masculinit es XX(X
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Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221074322
Jennifer Randles
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Pub Date : 2022-01-27DOI: 10.1177/1097184X211063498
Uchechukwu P. Umezurike
This paper examines the connections between masculinity and orthodoxy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to underscore the intersections of gender, class, religion, and ethnicity. Adichie depicts two contradictory figures of Catholic orthodoxy, namely, Eugene and Father Amadi and the consequences of their performances of masculinity. Where Eugene enacts violence on his family in the name of piety, Father Amadi demonstrates receptivity to human suffering as crucial to piety. I draw on the ideas of Michel Foucault and Raewyn Connell to demonstrate how discipline, control, and male power operate in the domestic sphere and their effects on subjectivities and bodies. Adichie’s portrayal of Eugene articulates a model of disciplinary power undergirded by orthodoxy. Eugene, therefore, dramatizes orthodox masculinity. I argue that Adichie envisions a redefinition of masculinity by presenting Father Amadi as an alternative to Eugene’s enactments of orthodoxy. I conclude that Adichie provides us with an understanding of how people can deploy violence in the name of piety and religion. Indeed, Adichie emphasizes the need to redefine masculinity cognizant of the dignity of all humanity.
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