scholarly journals Resistance or Complicity? Chinese Canadian Men Negotiating Whiteness and Masculinity in the Canadian Prairies

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Qingyan Sun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Canadian Prairies ◽  
Chinese Men ◽  
Men I ◽  
Chinese Masculinity ◽  
Chinese Canadian

In this essay, I critically analyze the practice of masculinity negotiation based on data collected through a qualitative study of hegemonic masculinity. Reflecting some dynamics of the historical subordination of Chinese masculinity in Canada, the Chinese Albertan males who participated in the research framed a somatic white masculinity, via which they discursively displaced themselves from the domain of the masculine. Some of them employed sport-participation to negotiate their masculine statuses. Underscoring whiteness as a material aspect of masculinity that cannot be performatively constructed by Chinese men, I argue that masculinity negotiation does not constitute an equitable means of resistance, as the very practice entrenches an archetypal masculine subject with whiteness at its centre. Through this discussion, I wish to incite conceptualizations of resistance in more critical terms.

Giving Hegemonic Masculinity a Face Lift: Masquerade in John Woo's Face/Off and the Somatechnics of Masculinity in Crisis

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-26
Author(s):  
Kate Bowen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
American History ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Face Lift ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
New Man ◽  
And Gender

In 1990s America, the question of what made a ‘real’ man was at the forefront of debates about sex and gender. During this pivotal moment in American history, hegemonic masculinity in particular was experiencing numerous threats to its ontological security. For instance, masculinity was infamously pronounced in crisis, the advent of the ‘new man’ betrayed anxieties about an image-conscious and feminine performance of masculinity, and there was mounting social pressure from civil rights, feminist, and queer groups for straight, white, masculinity to be challenged as the centre of the patriarchal stage. In short, the issue for masculinity in the 90s was that of legitimacy. The response from Hollywood was an influx of films which featured leading men in costume, disguise, or masquerade. John Woo's Face/Off is one such film that betrays anxieties about the constructedness of hegemonic masculinity. Face/Off does so through the motif of plastic surgery. In this article, I will explore how Face/Off uses the image of plastic surgery to represent the masculinities of its male protagonists as masquerades. I will demonstrate how plastic surgery in Face/Off is a device which transforms hegemonic masculinity so that it may adapt to the climate of crisis and secure its continuation. Face/Off demonstrates that masculinity is a construct which masquerades as an ontology.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Derek Hird ◽  
Geng Song
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Business Markets ◽  
Trading Systems ◽  
Chinese Men ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Romantic Involvement ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Chinese Masculinity

This chapter outlines transnational masculinities as a field of Study, and scholarship on transnationally inflected representations of Chinese masculinity and transnationally mobile Chinese men. It identifies three key key characteristics in the scholarly literature on Chinese masculinities in the context of globalization. First, the concept of cosmopolitanism is being increasingly used to explore the localization of globally circulating ideas and images in Chinese masculinities. Second, China’s integration with global financial and trading systems, which has been particularly pronounced since the 1990s, has forced the historically dominant intellectual or scholar-official (shi士‎) class to reconcile itself with the business activities traditionally carried out by the merchant (shang商‎) class. Third, the transnational circulation of models of emotionally expressive and caring fatherhood is significantly influencing Chinese discourses and practices of fathering. Through a detailed analysis of the other chapters in the volume, this chapter argues that it is possible to identify five broad patterns in the transformations of Chinese transnational masculinities: the embrace of localized cosmopolitan masculinities that are part-founded on historical notions and practices of Chinese masculinity; the enmeshment of intellectuals in business markets; emotionally engaged styles of fathering and intimate partnership; romantic involvement with non-Chinese women; and widespread anxiety and sensitivity about perceptions of Chinese masculinity. This chapter concludes that Chinese men are not unique in having to face such issues in transnational contexts; but, as the other chapters in this volume demonstrate, they negotiate them in unique—yet explainable—ways.

Racializing heterosexuality: Non-normativity and East Asian characters in James Bond films

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mie Hiramoto ◽  
Phoebe Pua
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
East Asian ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
James Bond ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
Film Series

AbstractThis article investigates how naturalized models of hegemonic masculinity affect race and sexuality in the James Bond film series. Through close analysis of film dialogue and paralinguistic cues, the article examines how the sexualities of East Asian female and male characters are constructed as oversexed and undersexed, respectively. The analysis therefore affirms Connell's (1995) conception of white heterosexual masculinity as exemplary: East Asian characters are positioned not only as racial Others, but as bodies upon which Bond's heterosexual masculinity is reflected and affirmed as normative and, by extension, ideal. In this way, race is curiously invoked to ‘explain’ sexuality, and Bond's unmarked white masculinity becomes the normative referent for expressions of heterosexual desire. By showing how the sexuality of East Asian characters is typecast as non-normative, the article gestures toward the possibility of theorizing racialized performances of heterosexuality as queer. (East Asia, James Bond, sexuality, race, masculinity, femininity, normativity, film)*

scholarly journals A qualitative study of Chinese Canadian fathers’ smoking behaviors: intersecting cultures and masculinities

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimei Mao ◽  
Joan L Bottorff ◽  
John L Oliffe ◽  
Gayl Sarbit ◽  
Mary T Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Smoking Behaviors ◽  
Chinese Canadian

The (Gendered) Experiences of Female Faculty Members in Two Health and Kinesiology Departments

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Sartore ◽  
George B. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Female Faculty

The purpose of the current study was to explore how a relatively overlooked population of sport-related professionals, female faculty members in health and kinesiology departments in the United States, have interpreted and navigated the cultural fields of gender, sport, and education. Employing qualitative methodology and coupling Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity with Bourdieu’s concepts of practice, habitus, field, capital, and agency, ten female faculty members from two health and kinesiology departments discussed sport, in relation to gender, as being both empowering and limiting during their respective lifetimes. Despite these two very different effects, gender, sport and sport participation were significant in shaping these women, both personally and professionally. The implications of the findings and suggestions for future works are provided.

The Cosmopolitan Dream

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Chinese Men ◽  
The Us ◽  
Chinese Entrepreneurs ◽  
Tv Shows ◽  
Chinese Masculinity ◽  
Gay Identities

What does it mean to be a mainland Chinese man in a transcultural world? What resources do mainland Chinese men utilise to perform a masculinity that is both Chinese and cosmopolitan? This volume demonstrates that the newly emerging formations of mainland Chinese masculinity, whether located in China or overseas, can only be fully understood through attending to the transnational dimensions of their construction. This volume maps multiple instantiations of the 'transnational turn' in Chinese masculinities, including portrayals of the transnational business masculinity of globe-trotting Chinese businessmen in Chinese and German TV dramas, transcultural models of caring fatherhood in Chinese reality TV shows, the transnational journeys of young Chinese entrepreneurs in search of a sense of cultural identity in Chinese blockbuster movies, filmic portrayals of Chinese gay identities ‘haunted’ by premodern masculine models, the integration of sexually liberated Western masculinities and historical caizi images in contemporary fiction, the culinary masculinity of cosmopolitan Chinese TV chefs, the representation of Chinese masculinities in Japan and in online Chinese-language forums in the US, the effect of migration to Africa on Chinese fathering subjectivities, and Chinese fathers' involvement in the growing transnational phenomenon of 'birth tourism' in California.

scholarly journals Representaciones Sociales sobre Emociones y Masculinidad en Hombres Bogotanos Social

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Giovane Mendieta-Izquierdo ◽  
Diana Patricia Tinjaca-Prada ◽  
Juan María Cuevas-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Power Domination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Stereotypes

This article aims to identify the content and organization of social representations about the concept of emotions and masculinity of young Bogota men, from a qualitative study design in the light of social representations through associative techniques such as free listings and questionnaires. In comparison by pairs to 20 young men with employment in Bogotá, Colombia, by means of proactive sampling and convenience, the analysis was carried out in the light of graph theory, after identifying the distance index.  It was found that the social representation of the emotion concept is related to a feeling associated to success and motivation, as well as to emotional expressions such as: anger, joy, sadness and happiness.  The masculinity concept is permeated by hegemonic elements, linked to strength, power, domination and manhood, related to responsibility and work.  It is concluded that the social representation of the concepts of masculinity and emotion is diverse, it is reconciled in several peripheral elements which can be fractured and generate mobility in social representation recognizing the mandates of hegemonic masculinity and male stereotypes.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Chinese Canadian Male Immigrants’ Perspectives on Stopping Smoking: Implications for Tobacco Control in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimei Mao ◽  
Joan L. Bottorff ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Gayl Sarbit ◽  
Mary T. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Quitting Smoking ◽  
Canadian Immigrants ◽  
Canadian Culture ◽  
Chinese Canadian ◽  
The Impact

China has the largest number of smokers in the world; more than half of adult men smoke. Chinese immigrants smoke at lower rates than the mainstream population and other immigrant groups do. This qualitative study was to explore the influence of denormalization in Canada on male Chinese immigrant smoking after migration. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 male Chinese Canadian immigrants who were currently smoking or had quit smoking in the past 5 years. The study identified that, while becoming a prospective/father prompted the Chinese smokers to quit or reduce their smoking due to concern of the impacts of their smoking on the health of their young children, changes in smoking were also associated with the smoking environment. Four facilitators were identified which were related to the denomormalized smoking environment in Canada: (a) the stigma related to being a smoker in Canada, (b) conformity with Canadian smoking bans in public places, (c) the reduced social function of smoking in Canadian culture, and (d) the impact of graphic health messages on cigarette packs. Denormalization of tobacco in Canada in combination with collectivist values among Chinese smokers appeared to contribute to participants’ reducing and quitting smoking. Although findings of the study cannot be claimed as generalizable to the wider population of Chinese Canadian immigrants due to the small number of the participants, this study provides lessons for the development of tobacco control measures in China to reverse the current prosmoking social environment.

Persona, Politics, and Chinese Masculinity in Japan

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-148
Author(s):  
Jamie Coates
Keyword(s):  
Red Light ◽  
Chinese Men ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Chinese Masculinity ◽  
Red Light District

Through an exploration of one Chinese man’s efforts to navigate masculinities in Japan, this chapter conceptualises how masculine persona change. Li Xiaomu first gained notoriety as a guide to, and commentator on, Japan’s red light district, Kabukicho. Often exacerbating negative perceptions of Chinese-ness in Japan, Li’s masculine performances coopted hegemonic associations between Chinese men and underworld crime in the late 1990s and early 2000s. More recently however, Li has moved to perform other hegemonic masculinities through his new persona as a respectful politician and advocate for diversity in Japan. Based on ethnographic and media-text analyses of Li’s complex public persona, this chapter interrogates what it means for Chinese men to strive towards a cosmopolitanism ethos in transnational contexts.

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