Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing "hyper-masculinity' through Seattle's gay, leather community

被引:9
作者
Childs, Andrew [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Geog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
关键词
Masculinity; hyper-masculinity; gender; sexuality; BDSM; leather; GEOGRAPHIES; GENDER; PLACE; WORK; MEN;
D O I
10.1080/0966369X.2016.1160033
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
This article offers a critique of the concept of hyper-masculinity and a more nuanced, place contingent, critical way to think about masculinity. I use the concept of hyper-masculinity to highlight a conceptual problem between essentialist and de-essentialized notions of gender. Constructionist notions of masculinity (and gender) do not escape the essentialist problem; however, by critiquing and offering a placed conceptualization of hyper-masculinity based on Seattle's gay leather community, I push the boundaries of masculinity and gender to arrive at a more nuanced, embodied, place-based and contingent understanding of hyper-masculinity thereby side-stepping debates that essentialist/constructionist. Through participant-observations and ethnographic interviews with men who practice hyper-masculinity within the gay leather community in Seattle, USA, I interrogate hyper-masculinity within the community to demonstrate how it reinforces and subverts heterosexual gender roles and homonormativity. ResumenEste articulo ofrece una critica del concepto de hiper-masculinidad y una forma critica mas matizada, contingente con el lugar, de pensar la masculinidad. Utilizo el concepto de hiper-masculinidad para resaltar un problema conceptual entre las nociones esencialistas y las desencializadas de genero. Los conceptos construccionistas de masculinidad (y de genero) no escapan al problema esencialista; sin embargo, al criticar y ofrecer una conceptualizacion localizada de la hiper-masculinidad basada en la comunidad gay de la cultura leather (cuero) en Seattle, amplio los limites de masculinidad y genero para arribar a una comprension mas matizada, corporizada, basada en el lugar y contingente de la hiper-masculinidad, eludiendo de esta forma los debates esencialistas/construccionistas. A traves de observacion participante y entrevistas etnograficas con hombres que practican la hiper-masculinidad dentro de la comunidad gay de la cultura leather en Seattle, EE.UU., interrogo a la hiper-masculinidad dentro de la comunidad para demostrar como refuerza y subvierte los roles de genero heterosexuales y la homonormatividad.
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页码:1315 / 1328
页数:14
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