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- Reeser, Todd W., et al.
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Masculinity and affect : new possibilities, new agendas
- 2018
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 13:3-4, s. 145-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this special issue is to create a greater dialogue between affect studies and masculinity studies. The contributions to the issue explore how affect functions as non-discursive intensities that may enable new forms of gendered subjectivities that subvert core tenets of masculinity, as well as how affect may be channeled into masculinities that reaffirm hegemonic or normative gender constructs. In this introduction, we discuss how masculinity studies has approached men and emotions, outline theoretical approaches to affective masculinities that may help scholars rethink and destabilize masculinity, and discuss how affect and masculinity may be approached methodologically.
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-, et al.
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Trans masculinities
- 2016
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Ingår i: Norma. - London : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 11:4, s. 217-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this special issue is to enable a dialogue between masculinity studies and transgender studies and attempt to find common areas of inquiry and mutual knowledge production in such conventionally divided arenas. The contributions to the issue explore a multiplicity of masculinities, which are seen as situational positions that can be deployed and activated by a variety of bodies, and in this way attempt to de-essentialize masculinity as grounded in a cis-male body. In this introduction, we discuss how masculinity studies have approached transgender issues, its general lack of interest in trans masculinities, as well as how transgender studies have related to masculinity theorizing.
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- Abrahamsson, Lena, et al.
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Changing storylines and masculine bodies in Australian coal mining organisations
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:1, s. 52-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we are exploring gendered subjectivity and workplace change in male dominated industrial organizations. The empirical base is a study of Australian coal mining companies implementing new practices in workplace safety in underground coal mines. The starting point for the study was the mining companies' experiences of the continuing practical problem of translating training in safety into new and safe workplace practice in coal mining workplaces. Ethnographic interviews and observations were carried out in two parts, the first focussing on mine workers and second on safety and rescue trainers. We used the poststructural analytical concept of storylines (Sondergaard, 2002) and Butler's theorisation of gendered subjectivity to interpret the data. Our study found that practices of masculinity in local mining organizations are still strong, but there have been changes in the way masculinities are performed in the workplace. One characteristic of the new workplace culture is that the worker's body is becoming more important. Taking care of the body goes hand in hand with focusing on safety. This new kind of mine worker masculinity can therefore be seen as a way of handling the contradiction between storylines of the old hegemonic masculinity and the demands of safe work practices.
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- Alvinius, Aida, et al.
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Becoming a Swedish military ranger : a grounded theory study
- 2016
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 11:1, s. 34-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The armed forces in virtually all countries are traditionally male-dominated organisations. Military rangers constitute an elite unit whose chief skills and capabilities centre on unconventional warfare and intelligence gathering in enemy territory, as well as conducting low-intensity warfare. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the process of becoming a military ranger and what it means to be one in this context from a masculinity perspective. The study was carried out with informants from three military ranger units in Sweden: the Army’s ranger battalion, parachuting rangers from an airborne battalion and intelligence battalion, and coastal rangers. In total, 28 informants participated in the study. All of them were men. A qualitative analysis resulted in a model where the core variable was labelled on becoming a ranger through reproducing masculinity as a form of emotional regime. This core variable is built up by three different strategies, each of which contains a number of actions: building social identity by means of coolness strategies, observing symbols and rituals to build a sense of pride and building cohesion to maintain group intimacy, and emotionally exclude the external environment
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- Andersson, Helen, 1968-, et al.
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The masculinization of domestic cooking : a historical study of Swedish cookbooks for men
- 2022
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 17:4, s. 252-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study analyzes how men's domestic cooking is represented and masculinized in cookbooks, written by men for men and published in 1975, 1992, and 2010, respectively. Departing from the concept of domestic masculinities, it uses the methods of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. It asks: what kind of values and ideas connected to men, food, and the home are realized in texts and images? And how are these legitimized and naturalized? As the study's context is Sweden, a country known for its pursuit of gender equality, the study focuses on how men's domestic cooking has been represented in cookbooks published roughly 20 years apart. The analysis shows that, while the first two books are characterized by a 'real man' discourse and working-class masculinity, the 2010 book represents a masculinity in line with a 'new man image' closely linked to consumption and materiality. However, structurally, there are few differences. Values associated with traditional middle-class masculinities, traditional gender norms, and gendered division of domestic labor are reproduced. Men's cooking is recontextualized as a playful leisure activity. In all three books, cooking becomes another way for a man to appear successful - both in relation to other men and women, and in socioeconomic terms.
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- Andersson, Kjerstin, 1975-
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Over gravlax sandwiches and a coke, : a lunch conversation on masculinities with Professor James W. Messerschmidt
- 2008
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Ingår i: Norma. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 3:1, s. 5-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- James Messerschmidt, professor of Sociology (Dept. of Criminology and Women’s and Gender Studies program) at University of Southern Maine, USA has, since he received his Ph.D. from the Criminology Institute in the Department of Sociology at the Stockholm University, had a close relationship with Sweden and the Nordic counties. During the first week of September of 2007 he visited both the University of Oslo and the Linköping University. At Tema Barn in Linköping professor Messerschmidt presented a lecture on, “From Being Bullied to Bullying: Bodies, Masculinities, and In-School Violence”. His research interests focus on the interrelation of gender, race, class, and crime. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of eight books, including Masculinities and Crime (1993), Nine Lives: Adolescent Masculinities, the Body, and Violence (2000) and Flesh and Blood: Adolescent Gender Diversity and Violence, (2004). A co-authored article with R.W. Connell, “Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept” (in Gender and Society, 19 (6): 829–859) has been much debated since its publication in 2005. Prior to professor Messerschmidt’s lecture in Sweden, I had the opportunity to interview him over lunch.
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