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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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- Andersson, Kjerstin, 1975-
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To Slap A ‘Kraxelhora’ : Violence as Category-Bound Activity in Young Men's Talk
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:2, s. 144-162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much of the research, on young men’s violence towards girls is problematised, and linked to sexist attitudes held by young men towards girls. In this article I intend to show that, in discussing violence, violence towards girls is not generally accepted among the young men with a documented history of violence. In a study of violent young men in residential care, undergoing Aggression Replacement Training (ART) the issue becomes pertinent in an ART-discussion. One of the young men discloses that he has hit a girl once. In different accounts he elaborates the motives for doing this, and works to justify his actions. He gives two accounts of the episode in the ART-lesson; in an interview afterwards he produces yet another version. In this article I examine the variations he gives of what happened, how he is striving to position himself as morally justifiable and produce a successful masculine position for himself.
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- Asplund, Stig-Börje, 1973-
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Books as happy objects : on Swedish rural masculine reader identities
- 2021
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; , s. 98-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Joining the research that emphasises the importance of the social and cultural context for reading and masculinities, this article focuses on the significance of book collection for a rural working-class man’s relationship to reading. The data consists of a series of life story interviews, conducted as go-along interviews, with a Swedish rural working-class man in his 60s who collects books. Using theories of class, masculinity and place, and drawing on (Sara Ahmed’s [2010]. The promise of happiness. Duke University Press.) theory of emotions and affect, this study illuminates the intersection of reading practices, identity and masculinity while showing how a working-class man’s reading practices align with and deviate from normative conceptions of being a man within the studied context. Highlighting the practices of interacting with books on a physical level – collecting, holding, sorting, viewing covers, and so on – the article also shows how these tactile practices contribute to a rural working-class man’s development of a reader identity.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-, et al.
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Den bioniske mannen på autoerotiska äventyr : mäns risktagande i trafikrummet
- 2010
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo, Norge : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 5:1, s. 27-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- “The bionic man goes autoerotic – theoretic keys towards a refined understanding of men’s risk taking in public space”Gender construction in relation to mobility and movement gives rise to intriguing questions regarding the interfaces between men, masculinity, technology, “danger” and risk-taking, especially when discussing issues of traffic safety. How can we conceptualize men’s risk taking practices within the traffic realm? By drawing on research from feminist science and technology studies, the authors suggest and develop the figuration the bionic man for how to understand cars and other mobile vehicles such as mopeds as extensions of the (male) body. The construction of masculinity is seen to be interlinked with the use and mastering of motor vehicles. This theoretical frame work is further analysed by introducing the concept of autoeroticism as a meaningful way for understanding the profound embodied and emotional relation between men, technologies of movement and risk taking. The authors argue that the emotional aspects of driving cars and riding mopeds need to be regarded as both vital and crucial aspects when studying men’s risk taking in traffic space.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Implicit men in traffic safety discourse : A life course perspective on (auto)mobility, violations and interventions
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget AS. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:2, s. 127-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is the first country in the world to have introduced the so-called Vision Zero (Nollvisionen): an ethical approach suggesting that road safety cannot be traded for mobility. Policy writings on traffic safety have so far been very limited in terms of explicitly addressing risk taking practices as mainly performed by men or as a way of performing masculinities. In this article I discuss how the gender-neutral language in traffic safety policy constructs adulthood as signifying maturity and good driving practices. In traffic safety policy, implicit adult men are contrasted against the young(er) drivers who are constructed as problematic to traffic safety. Rather than being about maturity or something that ‘just happens’ I suggest understanding (dangerous) driving as a repertoire for some men to perform masculinities linking it with power and entitlement.Still, not only dangerous driving practices per se are problematic to road safety. I argue that automobility needs to be understood as much more thoroughly affecting everyday life than is acknowledged in traffic safety discourse. A way of acknowledging the multiplicity of experiences and effects from automobility is to view it as a ‘process of damaging’. This perspective takes into consideration how automobility simultaneously enables and disables ‘safe’ mobility along lines of gender, age and able-bodiedness. Despite the fact that these problematic effects to some extent are acknowledged in policy, automobility remains a privileged mode of transportation in contemporary Sweden.
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- Balkmar, Dag, 1974-
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Negotiating the ‘plastic rocket’ : masculinity, car styling and performance in the Swedish modified car community
- 2014
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Ingår i: Norma. - London : Routledge. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 9:3, s. 166-177
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article adds new knowledge on the ways that car modifiers negotiate their cars in elation to design, power and performance as qualities that make cars attractive. Inorder to understand the complex ways in which masculinity and cars co-constitute asculine subjectivities and communities, the article uses the modifier-car as a tool to discuss how certain ways of modifying and personifying cars create links between masculinity and cars at risk in male-dominated communities. Despite the fact that modified cars may share the looks and sounds of typical racing cars – and therefore appear to encompass some of the most convincing elements of power in automobile systems, namely the capacity for risk-taking – it is rather an alleged lack of power ascribed to some versions of modified cars –the plastic rocket–that stand out as a risk to constructions of modifier masculinity. Viewed as a feminized car, the plastic rocket has come to be negotiated as an inauthentic, foreign, powerless and vulgarexample of modifying cars compared to the Swedish modified car community’s working-class self-image. At the very core of the plastic rocket is a threat to modifier masculinity which is the inability to back up one’s looks with strength. It is argued that the discourses formed around the plastic rocket indicate ‘queer’ possibilities in the ways cars extend male bodies.
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- Baral, Anna, 1984-
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‘Thanks to Corona virus’ : trajectories of masculinities during the Ugandan lockdown
- 2021
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 16:3, s. 174-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The restrictions to curb the Covid-19 pandemic have caused an escalation of gender-based violence all over the world, but they have also changed the trajectories of masculinities in nuanced and complex ways. In this article, I explore the experiences of Ugandan men who became unable to provide under the national lockdown, often finding themselves confined in their homes for the first time in their life. I discuss two dimensions of this experience. On the one hand, men had to painfully withdraw from circles of reciprocity, exemplified by the practice of ‘checking on’, too burdensome in a moment of economic insecurity. On the other hand, men’s ‘being there’, at home, progressively shifted from an unwanted obligation to a welcomed responsibility, embraced intentionally. Juggling between forced proximity and distance, men explored different ways of validating themselves in the crisis. They both reproduced pre-existing dynamics, grounded on the tension between provision and withdrawal, and experienced emergent forms of caring masculinities and fatherhood, performed through sharing and reciprocity.
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- Berg, Linda, 1974-, et al.
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Hypogonadism : Diagnosis, Masculinity, and Capital in Narratives about Testosterone deficiency
- 2023
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Routledge. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 18:1, s. 5-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For centuries, male hypogonadism has been defined as a clinical syndrome caused by the inability to produce physiological concentrations of testosterone and/or normal amount of sperm. In 2020, an information campaign started in Sweden with the ambition of increasing knowledge about hypogonadism and (lack of) testosterone, targeting both men and healthcare providers. In this study, we take a closer look at media discussions in Sweden on hypogonadism over the period 2018–2021. Through feminist thinking on biomedicalisation, we analyse the media material about the phenomena and issues being raised regarding masculinity, age and health in contemporary neoliberal and biocapital times. For some people, hypogonadism is a severe condition, but we can also see that the diagnosis becomes a response to a wide range of symptoms, expanding the realm for diagnostic practices and tying into normative ideas about age, time and lacking or fading masculinity. The media narratives about hypogonadism not only reflect cultural norms regarding masculinity and the plasticity of diagnoses but also create desires, needs and markets.
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- Berggren, Kalle, 1980-
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'No homo' : Straight inoculations and the queering of masculinity in Swedish hip hop
- 2012
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Ingår i: Norma. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 7:1, s. 50-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Performing heterosexuality is often a central component in the making ofmasculinity. Yet queer theory with its critical focus on heterosexuality has not hadthe same impact on masculinity studies as on other areas of gender studies. Thisarticle seeks to contribute to the emerging use of queer theory within criticalstudies on men and masculinities by examining the production and negotiation ofmale heterosexuality in Swedish hip hop. This is done through a discourse analysisof a broad sample of Swedish rap lyrics from 1991 to 2011. Analyzing the use ofmetaphors, rhetorical negotiations and triangles of desire, it is argued that in spiteof a dominant heteronormative discourse, signs of male homosocial desire abound.The author suggests that the concept of straight inoculations can be useful inunderstanding attempts to maintain heterosexuality in an ambiguous terrain.
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- Bjørnholt,, Margunn, 1958-
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Fathers and sons : gender socialization and intergenerational transmission revisited
- 2009
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies (NORMA). - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 4:1, s. 84-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article, which employs a dyadic father-son approach, addresses the methodological and theoretical challenges involved in studying gender socialization and intergenerational transmission. The article is part of a longitudinal follow-up study of the Work-Sharing Couples Project, a small, experimental action research project for gender equality in the family in Norway during the first part of the 1970s; the project was designed to promote gender equality and a better work/life balance in families and was based on both spouses working part-time and sharing breadwinning, childcare and housework. The follow-up study was conducted by interviewing the original couples in 2005–2006. A sample of the sons of the work- sharing couples has also been interviewed as part of an ongoing follow-up study of intergenerational transmission. The background of the article consists of the findings so far relating to the fathers in the study: these findings provide little or no support for a model of father/son transmission; the work-sharing men did not refer to their own fathers as “role models”. Further, the father-son research design poses certain methodological, theoretical and ethical challenges which should be considered and weighed up against the possible analytical gains of this approach. Against the background of these concerns, a single father-son case is explored based on a couple interview with the parents and individual interviews with both the parents and the son. Based on analyzing this case, methodological and theoretical implications for the study of intergenerational transmission, boys’ socialization and the origin of masculinity/(ies) are discussed.
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- Choobineh, Alireza, et al.
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Editorial
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:1, s. 1-7
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- Dahl, Emmy, et al.
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Konstruktioner av maskulinitet i samtal om kollektivtrafik
- 2012
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 7:2, s. 160-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article highlights how environmental issues influence transport planning, and how they make transport planners rethink previous categorizations of user groups. The introduction of an environmental discourse leads to a questioning of men’s travel activities, i.e. car driving. However, the critique against men’s travelling does not address all men. Instead, two types of masculinities are constructed in the local planning discourse: the first one is a ‘problematic’ obsolete old driver. The second one is a young ‘quality conscious’ man who opts for new technological solutions. The relationship between these two constructions of masculinities is hierarchical.The transport planners interpret it as their responsibility to make sure that public transport is regarded as attractive to younger men and their imagined ‘needs’. The elderly men however, are made scapegoats and are blamed for their unsustainable travelling. These rather stereotypical constructions of men also include a negative perception of elderly men. The analysis is based on discussions in eight focus groups, accomplished in 2009 with 36 transport planners and politicians (24 men and 12 women) working with the planning of the future public transport system in Malmö city in the south of Sweden.
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Changing men, changing masculinities
- 2022
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 17:4, s. 213-218
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Editorial: is masculinity toxic?
- 2019
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Routledge. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 14:3, s. 147-151
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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Enculturating men, cultivating masculinity
- 2024
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 19:2, s. 57-62
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- de Boise, Sam, 1985-
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The personal is political … just not always progressive : Affective interruptions and their promise for CSMM
- 2018
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 13:3-4, s. 158-174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM), a well-established argument has been that white, heterosexual, middle-class men practice emotional repression as a means of maintaining social power. Whilst CSMM have often overlooked emotions, there is an increasing body of work which argues that men both have an active understanding of their emotional lives and that men’s emotional lives have significantly changed. Crucially, emotions are important for exploring how men’s practice connects to structure; what has been called ‘the problem of social embodiment’. However, recent perspectives on emotions and masculinities may over-emphasise the gender-progressive effects of men discussing emotions, tending to overlook how ‘semi-’ and ‘non-conscious’ forms of men’s embodiment shape far less progressive trends and even how discourses around ‘softening masculinity’ may support various forms of misogynstic behaviour. This article argues that critical feminist ‘turns to affect’ can help foreground the problem of social embodiment in CSMM in less deterministic ways, without neglecting intersectional questions of power. To illustrate potential uses for affect in CSMM, the article adopts Wetherell’s concepts of ‘affective practice’ in combination with Ahmed’s notion of ‘happy objects’ through an exploration of three key case studies: online masculinist rage; ‘nice guy’ discourse and nationalist politics.
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- Eman, Josefin, 1983-
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Constructing successful old-age masculinities amongst athletes
- 2011
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 6:1, s. 46-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the issue of old-age masculinities by exploring if and howthe process of growing old affects the gendered self-images of Swedish old maleathletes. It follows the grounded theory research design of Kathy Charmaz and isbased on interviews with nine athletes aged 68 to 90. The findings in this articleindicate that the athletes withdraw from the masculine practice of competitivesports because it is not considered to be age-appropriate. The men seem toreconstruct their self-images in accordance with four old-age masculinity themes:being physically active, being a leader, being a busy senior, and being a family man.The concept of successful aging is found to be particularly significant in reshapingthe men’s self-images. Therefore, this article proposes a combination of theconcepts of hegemonic masculinity1 and successful aging in order to increase theunderstanding of old-age masculinities.
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- Ericson, Mathias, 1976
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Firefighters as exceptional: heroism, nationalism and masculinity in times of suburban riots and anti-racist protests
- 2014
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Ingår i: NORMA - International Journal for Masculinity Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 9:3, s. 178-190
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent years have seen riots in metropolitan suburbs in Sweden which have raised public debates on segregation processes in Sweden and the downsizing of the welfare state. In this process attacks on firefighters are highlighted as indicators that the welfare state of Sweden is in trouble. At the same time the firefighters’ profession could also be seen as exceptional in terms of resistance towards gender equality and diversity work. Based on ethnographic studies of firefighters this article suggests that such paradoxes call attention to the contingency of masculinity construction in this progression. It is proposed that the growing field of studies on firefighters and masculinity may contribute to understanding how the masculine and heroic imaginary of firefighters may reproduce normalizing intersections of heroism, nationalism and masculinity.
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- Ericson, Mathias, 1976
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‘It is men who die and all that, so what is new?’ Male vulnerability, institutionalised masculinity and the present absence of a problem in Swedish rescue service accident prevention
- 2021
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Ingår i: NORMA. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 16:3, s. 159-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Men die in accidents more frequently than women. However, the statistical facts do not necessarily translate into any self-evident discussion of addressing men and masculinity construction in work with accident prevention. This article draws upon theories of masculinity, affect and haunting in order to discuss social and institutional processes that support a gender-neutral approach to accidents, where the high frequency of men is just something you accept. The analyses are based on observations and interviews with people who work with accident investigation and prevention within the rescue service in Sweden. The article suggests that male vulnerability is reiterated as a haunting phenomenon beyond the responsibility of the rescue service which reproduces masculinity as a form of cruel optimism. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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- Eriksson, Mia
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Breivik and I : affective encounters with ‘failed’ masculinity in stories about right-wing terrorism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Norma. - Abingdon-on-Thames : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 13:3-4, s. 265-278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For feminist theory, the search for the material has often found its way via affect. As an immanent and seemingly pre-discursive and bodily experience, affects seem to offer a way out of the language and discourse trap. But should affect really be understood as solely a material matter? If every phenomenon is material-discursive, as Karen Barad suggests, cannot affect, as an immanent and lived bodily experience also be both material and discursive? In this article, I will approach these questions through a reading of a small selection of texts that tell the story of Anders Behring Breivik and the terrorist attack in Norway on 22 July 2011. In a troubling encounter with these stories, I found myself identifying with Breivik, an identification that led to an intense affective experience of anxiety and disgust, but also to an emotional self-reflexive elaboration on shame and guilt. This article presents an analysis of the prevalence of norms on white, adult masculinity in the stories about Breivik, as well as a theoretical elaboration on the relationship between affect and emotion, matter and language, and its relevance for the study of masculinity and violence.
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- Forsberg, Lucas, 1977-
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Negotiating involved fatherhood : Household work, childcare and spending time with children
- 2007
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 2:2, s. 109-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recent research shows that Swedish fathers to a great extent endorse an ideal of gender equality and the discourse on the 'new', involved fatherhood that for several decades has been dominating Swedish family politics is now also more or less hegemonic among Swedish men. At the same time, research argues that there is a discrepancy between ideology and practice. Parenthood still means different things for men and women since women, for instance, continue to take the main responsibility for childcare and household work. Drawing on an ethnographic study, this article analyses how eight Swedish middle class men construct themselves as involved fathers and how they negotiate their involvement in household work, childcare and close relations with their children. The article shows that even though the discourse on paternal involvement may be dominant, it is nevertheless contested. The men mostly constructed their involvement as being gender-equal, but at times they resisted it through articulating discourses on child-centredness, kinship and gendered division of labour. Thus, they reiterated themselves as involved fathers, but not always necessarily in line with the official dual-carer discourse.
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- Goedecke, Klara, PhD, 1985-
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Masculinity as buzzword?
- 2024
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-
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10 years of NORMA
- 2016
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 10:1, s. 1-2
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-, et al.
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Changing and globalising masculinity Studies
- 2014
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 9:1, s. 1--4
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-, et al.
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Introduction : complicating the emotions of men and masculinities
- 2017
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 12:3/4, s. 185-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Masculinity studies has for a long time been interested in emotions. Two models that predominate in the literature are the ‘unemotional man’ and the ‘angry man’. Considerations of the unemotional man center on the importance of the control of emotion and its centrality to masculinity. In this gendered morphology, men treat emotion as signs of weakness, which renders it difficult to display feelings as the act threatens their sense of masculinity. This behavior may make men emotionally incompetent and can pose substantial problems for individual men, while it also upholds the gender order since stoicism and rationality are culturally idealized. Ironically, this emotional regime has also been said to cause men’s anger and violence. From this perspective, men’s emotional incompetence may make them too emotional since they are unable to deal with difficult emotions.The contributions to this special issue problematize this binarized discourse and its often essentialist understanding of men and their emotional lives.
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-, et al.
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Maskulinitetsforkningen i förändring
- 2013
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Universitetsforlaget. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 8:2, s. 107-111
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-
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Men, myths, and masculinity politics
- 2011
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget i samarbeid med NIKK. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 6:2, s. 105-109
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- Gottzén, Lucas, 1977-
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Placing Nordic men and masculinities
- 2013
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Ingår i: Norma. - Oslo : Universitetsforlaget i samarbeid med NIKK. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 8:1, s. 1-6
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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-, et al.
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Becoming-a-firefighter : on the intra-active relationship between firefighters and their tools
- 2016
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 11:3, s. 158-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focuses on the relationship between the members of a local fire brigade in Sweden and their tools, as well as the organisational dynamics that forge this relation. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad [2007. Meeting the universe halfway. Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press], and particularly her notion of intra-action, the intention is to unpick the strong material and symbolic relationship between men, masculinity and tools seen in this profession. While Barad’s work has been useful within feminist theories, few attempts have been made to investigate how her work can benefit critical studies of men and masculinities, one exception being Ulf Mellström [2016. From a hegemonic politics of masculinity to an ontological politics of intimacy and vulnerability? Ways of imagining through Karen Barad's work. Rhizomes, 30. Retrieved from http://www.rhizomes.net/issue30/mellstrom.html] who explores how intimacy may be productive in developing more nuanced understandings of masculinities. Inspired by this approach, this article explores how using Barad’s notion of intra-action as an analytical tool can facilitate a deeper exploration of men’s intimate relationships with technologies. The intra-action between the members of the local fire brigade and their firefighting tools is not a one-off encounter, but takes place continuously. Hence, while a tool – in a specific situation – becomes an integral part of the body and the identity of a group of people, it requires constant maintenance in order to accomplish successful fire extinctions.
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- Hearn, Jeff, Senior Professor, 1947-, et al.
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Current debates on men and masculinities : an interview with Jeff Hearn
- 2023
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Ingår i: Norma. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 18:3, s. 161-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This interview article addresses: the state of current debates and key priority areas in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities, including the implications for men and masculinities in contemporary global conditions: the concept of gex; gender- and sexuality-based violence and digital technology; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on men and masculinities; and methodological challenges arising with the growth of quantitative studies.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-
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Men, masculinities and the material(-)discursive
- 2014
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Ingår i: Norma. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 1890-2138 .- 1890-2146. ; 9:1, s. 5-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the relations of materialist and discursive analyses of men and masculinities. More specifically, it argues for a materialist-discursive, material/discursive or even a materialdiscursive approach to men and masculinities. In the first part, some of the intellectual and political influences on the development of this approach are outlined. These include elaborations on materialism towards discourse, elaborations on discourse towards materialism, and attempts to work across that boundary. This is followed by focusing on, first, the example of men and violence, second, the topic of men, and, third, men's and males' materialdiscursive bodies. The concluding section discusses the importance of situatedness of knowledge, and the possibility of working towards the abolition of the social category of ‘men’. To deal with this complex problematic, a concept that speaks across the non-equivalence of males, men, masculinity is needed, and for this I suggest ‘gex’, rather than sex or gender.
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