Abstract
This study focuses on multiple masculinities conceptualized in terms of sociality, a concept used to refer to nonsexual interpersonal attractions. Through male homosocial heterosexual interactions, hegemonic masculinity is maintained as the norm to which men are held accountable despite individual conceptualizations of masculinity that depart from that norm. When it is understood among heterosexual men in homosocial circles that masculinity means being emotionally detached and competitive and that masculinity involves viewing women as sexual objects, their daily interactions help perpetuate a system that subordinates femininity and nonhegemonic masculinities. Nonhegemonic masculinities fail to influence structural gender arrangements significantly because their expression is either relegated to heterosocial settings or suppressed entirely.
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MasculinityFemininityHegemonic masculinityNorm (philosophy)ClubGender studiesPsychologySocial psychologyHeterosexualitySocialityInterpersonal communicationSociologyHuman sexualityPolitical science
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- 10
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- 2
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- 120-132
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Sharon R. Bird
(1996).
WELCOME TO THE MEN'S CLUB.
Gender & Society
, 10
(2)
, 120-132.
https://doi.org/10.1177/089124396010002002
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- 10.1177/089124396010002002