scholarly journals The Contradictions of Masculinity: Desire, emotions and masculine identities of seven heterosexual Mexican men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ricardo Quirarte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Material System ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
The Road ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Mexican Men

<p>Studying men and masculinities in Mexico through feminist sociology is necessary to tackle gender inequalities. These inequalities can be as extreme as the institutional, sexual and physical violence that occur in disproportionate numbers, or as quotidian as the micro-machismos that go unnoticed as forms of everyday gender violence. It is paramount to understand masculinity as a system of domination and differentiation as well as a gender identity that is performed by bodies that feel, are affected and recognise themselves as masculine and as men. By doing so, the road towards equality will include a strong critique of how men have learned to pursue a certain form of masculinity.  To question men’s relation with masculinity and their experience of recognising themselves as such, this thesis took a narrative approach to the analysis of video diaries, generated through an affective methodology with seven Mexican men about their sexual-affective heterosexual relationships. The methodological process involved a relationship of ethics, friendship and co-production. Each of the seven men recorded themselves talking about their relationships, their partners and themselves in a uniquely vulnerable, honest and reflexive manner. The video diaries were then turned into seven narratives that were organised discursively into topics of: Emotions, Desire and Identity.  The analysis centred on affective practices, emotions, social mediations of desire and masculine identity as ongoing negotiations in a particular geopolitical context. The men in this study constantly situated themselves between the hegemonic discourse of masculinity in Mexico and alternatives closer to a feminist approach. This positioning showed how their practices and ideas, while still part of the hegemonic system, were also able to challenge it.  Thus, this thesis demonstrates the value of an affective methodology for working with men to analyse masculinities. The men who participated in this research revealed their daily navigations between multiple forms of masculinities and the hegemonic system still embedded in them. Such everyday negotiations highlight the very real challenges to be overcome in the movement towards more equal, free and ethical relationships between women and men.  Furthermore, by offering a situated study of how Mexican men negotiate their masculinity, this research contributes to broader Anglophone literature on masculinity, which tends to be rooted in the Anglo-American experience. While concerned with relatively privileged Mexican men, it shows how such men negotiate global stereotypes such as the macho, the provider, the lover or the rebel.  Finally, this thesis reveals how masculinities are manifested, as gender identity, with specific practices, desires, emotions and ways of being in the world; and also as a symbolic-material system of hierarchical organisation of sexed bodies. Thus, analysis of sexual-affective heterosexual relationships, through a focus on masculinities, can bring to light the contradictions and conflicts of being a man situated in a privileged position within the sex-gender system, in a social context that is increasingly questioning the position and the system that maintains it.</p>

scholarly journals The Contradictions of Masculinity: Desire, emotions and masculine identities of seven heterosexual Mexican men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ricardo Quirarte
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Material System ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
The Road ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Mexican Men

<p>Studying men and masculinities in Mexico through feminist sociology is necessary to tackle gender inequalities. These inequalities can be as extreme as the institutional, sexual and physical violence that occur in disproportionate numbers, or as quotidian as the micro-machismos that go unnoticed as forms of everyday gender violence. It is paramount to understand masculinity as a system of domination and differentiation as well as a gender identity that is performed by bodies that feel, are affected and recognise themselves as masculine and as men. By doing so, the road towards equality will include a strong critique of how men have learned to pursue a certain form of masculinity.  To question men’s relation with masculinity and their experience of recognising themselves as such, this thesis took a narrative approach to the analysis of video diaries, generated through an affective methodology with seven Mexican men about their sexual-affective heterosexual relationships. The methodological process involved a relationship of ethics, friendship and co-production. Each of the seven men recorded themselves talking about their relationships, their partners and themselves in a uniquely vulnerable, honest and reflexive manner. The video diaries were then turned into seven narratives that were organised discursively into topics of: Emotions, Desire and Identity.  The analysis centred on affective practices, emotions, social mediations of desire and masculine identity as ongoing negotiations in a particular geopolitical context. The men in this study constantly situated themselves between the hegemonic discourse of masculinity in Mexico and alternatives closer to a feminist approach. This positioning showed how their practices and ideas, while still part of the hegemonic system, were also able to challenge it.  Thus, this thesis demonstrates the value of an affective methodology for working with men to analyse masculinities. The men who participated in this research revealed their daily navigations between multiple forms of masculinities and the hegemonic system still embedded in them. Such everyday negotiations highlight the very real challenges to be overcome in the movement towards more equal, free and ethical relationships between women and men.  Furthermore, by offering a situated study of how Mexican men negotiate their masculinity, this research contributes to broader Anglophone literature on masculinity, which tends to be rooted in the Anglo-American experience. While concerned with relatively privileged Mexican men, it shows how such men negotiate global stereotypes such as the macho, the provider, the lover or the rebel.  Finally, this thesis reveals how masculinities are manifested, as gender identity, with specific practices, desires, emotions and ways of being in the world; and also as a symbolic-material system of hierarchical organisation of sexed bodies. Thus, analysis of sexual-affective heterosexual relationships, through a focus on masculinities, can bring to light the contradictions and conflicts of being a man situated in a privileged position within the sex-gender system, in a social context that is increasingly questioning the position and the system that maintains it.</p>

scholarly journals Assessing the physical violence component of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales when used in heterosexual couples: an item response theory analysis

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Reichenheim ◽  
Ruben Klein ◽  
Claudia Leite Moraes
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Latent Trait ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Heterosexual Relationships ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Conflict Tactics Scales ◽  
Conflict Tactics ◽  
Revised Conflict Tactics Scales

Although there are psychometric evaluations of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) when applied to heterosexual relationships, none has used item response theory (IRT). To address this gap, the present paper assesses the instrument's physical violence subscale. The CTS2 was applied to 764 women who also responded for their partners. Single dimensionality assumption was corroborated. A 2-parameter logistic IRT model was used for estimating location and discriminating power of each item. Differential item functioning and item information pattern along the violence continuum were assessed. Gender differences were detected in 3 out of 12 items. Item coverage of the latent trait spectrum indicated little information at the lower ends, while plenty in the middle and upper ranges. Still, depending on gender, some item overlaps and regions with gaps could be detected. Despite some unresolved problems, the analysis shows that the items form a theoretically coherent information set across the continuum. Provided the user is aware of possible drawbacks, using the physical violence subscale of the CTS2 in heterosexual couples is still a sensible option.

scholarly journals Anglo-American views of Gavrilo Princip

Balcanica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 273-314
Author(s):  
Slobodan Markovich
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
The Road ◽  
Winston Churchill ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Great War

The paper deals with Western (Anglo-American) views on the Sarajevo assassination/attentat and Gavrilo Princip. Articles on the assassination and Princip in two leading quality dailies (The Times and The New York Times) have particularly been analysed as well as the views of leading historians and journalists who covered the subject including: R. G. D. Laffan, R. W. Seton-Watson, Winston Churchill, Sidney Fay, Bernadotte Schmitt, Rebecca West, A. J. P. Taylor, Vladimir Dedijer, Christopher Clark and Tim Butcher. In the West, the original general condemnation of the assassination and its main culprits was challenged when Rebecca West published her famous travelogue on Yugoslavia in 1941. Another Brit, the remarkable historian A. J. P. Taylor, had a much more positive view on the Sarajevo conspirators and blamed Germany and Austria-Hungary for the outbreak of the Great War. A turning point in Anglo-American perceptions was the publication of Vladimir Dedijer?s monumental book The Road to Sarajevo (1966), which humanised the main conspirators, a process initiated by R. West. Dedijer?s book was translated from English into all major Western languages and had an immediate impact on the understanding of the Sarajevo assassination. The rise of national antagonisms in Bosnia gradually alienated Princip from Bosnian Muslims and Croats, a process that began in the 1980s and was completed during the wars of the Yugoslav succession. Although all available sources clearly show that Princip, an ethnic Serb, gradually developed a broader Serbo-Croat and Yugoslav identity, he was ethnified and seen exclusively as a Serb by Bosnian Croats and Bosniaks and Western journalists in the 1990s. In the past century imagining Princip in Serbia and the West involved a whole spectrum of views. In interwar Anglo-American perceptions he was a fanatic and lunatic. He became humanised by Rebecca West (1941), A. J. P. Taylor showed understanding for his act (1956), he was fully explained by Dedijer (1966), challenged and then exonerated by Cristopher Clark (2012-13), and cordially embraced by Tim Butcher (2014).

scholarly journals Gender and the transsexual body in Transamerica

Literator ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy A. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Road ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Insight Into

Transamerica, by Duncan Tucker, released in 2005, addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer- (LGBTQ-) related themes through a transsexual female protagonist, Bree. This article discusses the film as an important step in the direction of representing the complexity of gender, which, by today’s standards, is more generally appreciated. Because of its subject matter, Transamerica is a contentious film, lauded and condemned in mainstream media for how it dealt with and represented transsexual identities. Despite nominations for a number of awards, the film’s portrayal of transsexual identities was largely ignored in academic discourse at the time. I argue here that the film provides insight into the challenges, requirements, concerns, as well as the consequences of gender-fluid expression, which has been recognised in academia for years and has become a more discussed topic in mainstream society, but the manner in which the film examines these insights was overlooked. I do this by contextualising the film in terms of contemporary examples of transgender existence, which have brought the topic to mainstream discourse, and by applying gender theory concepts to the film. I discuss the protagonist’s physical and emotional journey to self-discovery in the context of the road movie trope. I then look into the protagonist’s gender performance, as well as how the protagonist negotiates this performance in the various places she visits while on the journey. I show that the film encourages open and honest discourse about gender identity and expression; the opportunity for this discussion was not taken in the year of the film’s release.

Inclusivity the Brazilian Way: The Road to Same-sex Marriage in the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho Filho
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Road ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Local Sources ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World

AbstractIn June 2018, the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil’s (IEAB) General Synod voted, by an overwhelming majority, to amend its canons by redefining marriage as a ‘lifelong union between two people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity’.2 In this essay, I intend to describe the process that led to such decision both as the result of major changes that happened in Brazilian society and as a response to IEAB’s inner process of discernment and theology-making in parallel with other Anglican provinces. Rather than merely copying theological developments and discussions produced in the English-speaking world, IEAB creatively engaged foreign and local sources (Anglican and non-Anglican), thus producing a contextually based theology that led to its embracing of same-gender couples as full members, worthy of all sacraments and rites.

scholarly journals "Ella lo provocó": el enfoque de género en la comprensión de la violencia escolar

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berenice Pacheco-Salazar ◽  
Julián López-Yáñez
Keyword(s):  
School Violence ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Creative Play ◽  
Desarrollo Profesional ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Violencia Escolar

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la presencia de los estereotipos de género en las dinámicas de violencia escolar. Se realizó un estudio descriptivo con diseño cualitativo en dos centros educativos en República Dominicana, a partir de una muestra de 604 estudiantes entre 9 y 16 años. Las técnicas de levantamiento de información fueron talleres lúdicos-creativos, grupos focales y observación no participante. Los resultados evidencian que el arraigo a los roles estereotipados de género se constituye en un perpetuador de la violencia escolar. Esto se expresa en la violencia verbal y física y, de manera aún más dramática, en la violencia sexual, de la cual las alumnas siempre son las principales víctimas. Además, la socialización diferenciada produce que manifestaciones de violencia de género en la escuela sean invisibilizadas. Los hallazgos plantean la necesidad de formar a estudiantes en igualdad de género y educación afectivo-sexual, e integrar el enfoque de género y la coeducación en el desarrollo profesional docente a fin de que los centros educativos puedan desarrollar un abordaje preventivo y no reduccionista de la violencia escolar. The aim of this research is to analyze the presence of gender stereotypes in the dynamics of school violence. A descriptive study with qualitative design was carried out in two schools in the Dominican Republic, from a sample of 604 students between the ages 9 to 16 years old. The information-gathering techniques included creative play workshops, focus groups, and non-participant observation. The results demonstrate that the deeply-rooted gender stereotypes constitute a perpetuating support of school violence. This is expressed in verbal and physical violence and, even more severely, in sexual violence, of which female students are always the main victims. Furthermore, differentiated socialization renders manifestations of gender violence in school invisible. These findings raise the need to train students in gender equality and affective-sexual education, and to integrate a gender-based approach in the professional development of teachers in order to achieve a preventive approach to school violence.

The Road to Safety: A Study in Anglo-American Relations

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 799
Author(s):  
Gordon K. Lewis ◽  
Arthur Willert
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
Anglo American

The Road to Safety: A Study in Anglo-American Relations

1954 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Link ◽  
Arthur Willert ◽  
Samuel R. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
Anglo American

scholarly journals FENOMENA GENDER VIOLENCE TOKOH UTAMA PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL TELEMBUK KARYA KEDUNG DARMA ROMANSHA: SEBUAH KAJIAN FEMINISME SASTRA

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-164
Author(s):  
Imas Juidah ◽  
Eli Herlina
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Psychological Violence

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan (1) unsur intrinsik novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yang meliputi tema, alur, latar, dan penokohan; (2) bentuk gender violence yang dialami tokoh utama perempuan dalam novel Telembuk  karya Kedung Darma Romansha yang meliputi  physical violence, psychological violence, dan sexual violence tokoh utama novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha. Data dalam penelitian ini berwujud kata, frase, kalimat, dan ungkapan yang terdapat dalam novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha. Sedangkan, sumber data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu sebagai berikut. (1) Unsur intrinsik novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha meliputi: (a) tema novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu perlawanan perempuan dalam menghadapi berbagai ketidakadilan karena kodrat dan jenis kelamin, serta kekerasan gender; (b) alur yang digunakan dalam novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu alur mundur; (c) latar novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha meliputi latar tempat, waktu, dan sosial; (d) tokoh novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu terdapat satu tokoh utama dan tiga  puluh dua tokoh tambahan; (e) sudut pandang novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu menggunakan sudut pandang orang pertama “aku”. (2) Bentuk gender violence yang dialami tokoh utama perempuan dalam novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha meliputi: (a) physical violence yang dialami tokoh utama perempuan novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu berupa dorongan dan pukulan; (b) psychological violence yang dialami tokoh utama perempuan novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu berupa penyelewengan dan pengucapan kata-kata yang tidak menyenangkan; dan (c) sexual violence yang dialami tokoh utama perempuan novel Telembuk karya Kedung Darma Romansha yaitu berupa pemerkosaan.

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