Tristan Bridges
Biographic Data
| ID | 90891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tristan Bridges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tristan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bridges |
| SIGNATURE | BRIDGES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2856-1494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 549 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Visualizing the Rise and Seasonality of Mass Shootings in the United States
The authors visualize monthly mass-shooting incidents in the United States from 2013 to 2022 by integrating data from five major databases, each using different definitional boundaries. The combined dataset provides the most comprehensive view available of mass-shooting victimization during this period, including incidents often excluded in academic and media accounts. A tiled heat map and associated time-series plots reveal two key patterns: a c…
East Asian Masculinities at the Collision of State, Capital, and Renqing
Introduction: The Global Turn and East Asian Configurations of MasculinityWhen China's state media launched campaigns against "sissy" celebrities in 2021, targeting the soft masculinity aesthetics that Korean and Japanese pop culture had been circulating globally for decades, the contradictions animating contemporary East Asian masculinities became impossible to ignore.South Korea's Hallyu phenomenon had transformed "floral boy" aesthetics into g…
Transformations in Queer Placemaking
Tristan Bridges and Kendall Ota on Who Needs Gay Bars? and Long Live Queer Nightlife
Introduction
Legitimation as linchpin
The concept of hegemonic masculinity maintains a distinctive status within the social sciences and humanities. Yet there never has been an examination of Connell’s changing conceptualization of the term throughout her scholarship, and specifically when and why she integrated ‘legitimation’ into her definition of hegemonic masculinity. The authors address this oversight by providing a detailed retrospective on the concept from its embryonic concep…
Race and Masculinity in Gay Men's Pornography
How We Define Mass Shootings Shapes What We Can Learn about Them
Melanie Brazzell, Tara Leigh Tober, and Tristan Bridges on counting consequences
Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America
Open accessAbstractFirst published online December 15, 2023Men and Masculinities Scholarship and Interventions in Latin America: Symposium IntroductionSebastián Madrid, Teresa Valdés, [...], Roberto Celedón, Tristan Bridges https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2856-1494 [email protected], Kristen Barber, and Joseph D. Nelson+3-3View all authors and affiliationsVolume 26, Issue 5https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X231204037
On the Enduring Ways Masculinity Structures Straight Men's Sexual Lives
A Kaleidoscope of Identities
Contemporary theoretical tools in the social sciences and humanities hinder an understanding of the dynamic interplay between reflexivity and routine in the formation of sex, gender, and sexual identities. In A Kaleidoscope of Identities, James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges build on the work of feminist sociologists in examining the relationship among situational interaction, accountability, and relational and discursive social structures …
Hegemonic Masculinity
Violent Manhood
To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the United States
Protection is now the modal motivation for gun ownership, and men continue to outnumber women among gun owners. While research has linked economic precarity (e.g., insecurity and anxiety) to gun ownership and attitudes, separating economic well-being from constructions of masculinity is challenging. In response to blocked economic opportunities, some gun owners prioritize armed protection, symbolically replacing the masculine role of 'provider' w…
Google, Tell Me. Is He Gay? Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Gendered Anxieties in Google Search Queries about Sexuality
It is difficult to gauge people’s acceptance about same-sex sexualities, as responses to questionnaires are prone to social desirability bias. We offer a new proxy for understanding popular concern surrounding same-sex sexualities: prevalence of Google searches demonstrating concern over gay/lesbian sexual identities. Using Google Trends data, we find that Google searches about whether a specific person is gay or lesbian show patterned bias towar…
Masculinity and Covid-19
Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men's Disadvantage
This article analyzes how members of antifeminist and profeminist men’s groups discursively situate themselves as stigmatized by privilege. While the antifeminist men engage in symbolic disclosures that locate (white) men as the “real victims” of gender inequality, the profeminist men rely on strategies of disidentification to symbolically position themselves as somehow outside of the relations of gender and racial power and privilege they organi…
The White Hands of Death in America
Tristan Bridges and Maya Chatterjee on Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
Recent research in the social sciences suggests a methodological paradox as scholars work to make sense of the contemporary relationship between masculinity and homophobia. Representative surveys consistently find dramatically decreasing levels of sexual prejudice among all groups, among men and young men in particular. Qualitative scholarship, however, continues to find that enactments of homophobia remain integral components of contemporary mas…
Mitigating the Harms of Masculinity
Metrosexual
The metrosexual refers to an identity used to describe emergent behaviors among a group of heterosexual‐identifying men in which they began to engage with fashion, behavior, and consumer practices formerly defined as “feminine” or “gay.” This entry traces the origins of the term and summarizes research on metrosexual men. Research shows that while metrosexuals demonstrate that heterosexual men are afforded more flexibility in their fashion, consu…
Sex Cultures
The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Masculinities Studies
Feminist scholarship on masculinities ossified into a recognizable 'subfield' of gender studies, in part, through systematically centering the work of a very small group of white men. This process of collective centering works as an effective 'exclusionary practice' that I argue hinders both the scholarly and political potential of this field. This article examines the transformation of the status of the subfield alongside an examination of women…
On the Elasticity of Gender Hegemony
Symposium on Mark Regnerus’s Cheap Sex
Hybrid Masculinities
Hybrid masculinity refers to men's selective incorporation of performances and identity elements associated with marginalized and subordinated masculinities and femininities. We use recent theorization of hybrid masculinities to critically review theory and research that seeks to make sense of contemporary transformations in masculinity. We suggest that research broadly supports three distinct consequences associated with recent changes in perfor…
A Very 'Gay' Straight
This article addresses a paradoxical stance taken by young straight men in three groups who identify aspects of themselves as 'gay' to construct heterosexual masculine identities. By subjectively recognizing aspects of their identities as 'gay,' these men discursively distance themselves from stereotypes of masculinity and privilege and/or frame themselves as politically progressive. Yet, both of these practices obscure the ways they benefit from…
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
Recent research in the social sciences suggests a methodological paradox as scholars work to make sense of the contemporary relationship between masculinity and homophobia. Representative surveys consistently find dramatically decreasing levels of sexual prejudice among all groups, among men and young men in particular. Qualitative scholarship, however, continues to find that enactments of homophobia remain integral components of contemporary mas…
Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders
Cultural capital and hegemonic masculinity are two concepts that have received intense attention. While both have received serious consideration, critique and analysis, the context or field-specificity of each is sometimes ignored. They have been used in a diversity of ways. Using ethnographic and interview data from a US male bodybuilding community, this study highlights one useful employment. Hegemonic masculinity takes different shapes in diff…
Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men's Disadvantage
This article analyzes how members of antifeminist and profeminist men’s groups discursively situate themselves as stigmatized by privilege. While the antifeminist men engage in symbolic disclosures that locate (white) men as the “real victims” of gender inequality, the profeminist men rely on strategies of disidentification to symbolically position themselves as somehow outside of the relations of gender and racial power and privilege they organi…
Men Just Weren't Made To Do This
Though there is a vast literature on performances of drag, performances of gender and sexual transgressions outside of drag clubs are less studied. This case study of men's marches protesting violence against women-'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes' marches- examines the politics of such transgressions. Cross-dressing to various degrees is strategically utilized at these events in an attempt to encourage men to become empathetic allies. This article sugg…
On the Marriageability of Men
The “marriageability of men” is an argument used in sociological research to understand demographic changes in marriage and to analyze social dynamics associated with gender, race, class, family, the workplace, incarceration, and more. While some are marrying later and others are foregoing marriage altogether, a lack of marriageable men is often part of the argument concerning new patterns of family formation in the United States. Research mobili…
To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the United States
Protection is now the modal motivation for gun ownership, and men continue to outnumber women among gun owners. While research has linked economic precarity (e.g., insecurity and anxiety) to gun ownership and attitudes, separating economic well-being from constructions of masculinity is challenging. In response to blocked economic opportunities, some gun owners prioritize armed protection, symbolically replacing the masculine role of 'provider' w…
The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Masculinities Studies
Feminist scholarship on masculinities ossified into a recognizable 'subfield' of gender studies, in part, through systematically centering the work of a very small group of white men. This process of collective centering works as an effective 'exclusionary practice' that I argue hinders both the scholarly and political potential of this field. This article examines the transformation of the status of the subfield alongside an examination of women…
A Kaleidoscope of Identities
Contemporary theoretical tools in the social sciences and humanities hinder an understanding of the dynamic interplay between reflexivity and routine in the formation of sex, gender, and sexual identities. In A Kaleidoscope of Identities, James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges build on the work of feminist sociologists in examining the relationship among situational interaction, accountability, and relational and discursive social structures …
Masculinity and Covid-19
Google, Tell Me. Is He Gay? Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Gendered Anxieties in Google Search Queries about Sexuality
It is difficult to gauge people’s acceptance about same-sex sexualities, as responses to questionnaires are prone to social desirability bias. We offer a new proxy for understanding popular concern surrounding same-sex sexualities: prevalence of Google searches demonstrating concern over gay/lesbian sexual identities. Using Google Trends data, we find that Google searches about whether a specific person is gay or lesbian show patterned bias towar…
Joan Acker and the shift from patriarchy to gender
Feminist sociologist Joan Acker is most commonly cited as one of the first to theorize how gender gets institutionalized in organizations and workplaces. But this project was actually an application of a more general theoretical turn in the field Acker was promoting. Acker was centrally involved in an important feminist sociological conversation about whether we should continue to theorize and study ‘patriarchy' or whether our focus should shift …
Some Men
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
Legitimation as linchpin
The concept of hegemonic masculinity maintains a distinctive status within the social sciences and humanities. Yet there never has been an examination of Connell’s changing conceptualization of the term throughout her scholarship, and specifically when and why she integrated ‘legitimation’ into her definition of hegemonic masculinity. The authors address this oversight by providing a detailed retrospective on the concept from its embryonic concep…
Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders
Cultural capital and hegemonic masculinity are two concepts that have received intense attention. While both have received serious consideration, critique and analysis, the context or field-specificity of each is sometimes ignored. They have been used in a diversity of ways. Using ethnographic and interview data from a US male bodybuilding community, this study highlights one useful employment. Hegemonic masculinity takes different shapes in diff…
Men Just Weren't Made To Do This
Though there is a vast literature on performances of drag, performances of gender and sexual transgressions outside of drag clubs are less studied. This case study of men's marches protesting violence against women-'Walk a Mile in Her Shoes' marches- examines the politics of such transgressions. Cross-dressing to various degrees is strategically utilized at these events in an attempt to encourage men to become empathetic allies. This article sugg…
Hybrid Masculinities
Hybrid masculinity refers to men's selective incorporation of performances and identity elements associated with marginalized and subordinated masculinities and femininities. We use recent theorization of hybrid masculinities to critically review theory and research that seeks to make sense of contemporary transformations in masculinity. We suggest that research broadly supports three distinct consequences associated with recent changes in perfor…
Studying men and masculinities
A Very 'Gay' Straight
This article addresses a paradoxical stance taken by young straight men in three groups who identify aspects of themselves as 'gay' to construct heterosexual masculine identities. By subjectively recognizing aspects of their identities as 'gay,' these men discursively distance themselves from stereotypes of masculinity and privilege and/or frame themselves as politically progressive. Yet, both of these practices obscure the ways they benefit from…
Rethinking Transnational Men
On the Marriageability of Men
The “marriageability of men” is an argument used in sociological research to understand demographic changes in marriage and to analyze social dynamics associated with gender, race, class, family, the workplace, incarceration, and more. While some are marrying later and others are foregoing marriage altogether, a lack of marriageable men is often part of the argument concerning new patterns of family formation in the United States. Research mobili…
Geisha of a Different Kind
Some Men
Jane Ward, Not Gay
Joan Acker and the shift from patriarchy to gender
Feminist sociologist Joan Acker is most commonly cited as one of the first to theorize how gender gets institutionalized in organizations and workplaces. But this project was actually an application of a more general theoretical turn in the field Acker was promoting. Acker was centrally involved in an important feminist sociological conversation about whether we should continue to theorize and study ‘patriarchy' or whether our focus should shift …
On the Elasticity of Gender Hegemony
Symposium on Mark Regnerus’s Cheap Sex
Mitigating the Harms of Masculinity
Metrosexual
The metrosexual refers to an identity used to describe emergent behaviors among a group of heterosexual‐identifying men in which they began to engage with fashion, behavior, and consumer practices formerly defined as “feminine” or “gay.” This entry traces the origins of the term and summarizes research on metrosexual men. Research shows that while metrosexuals demonstrate that heterosexual men are afforded more flexibility in their fashion, consu…
Sex Cultures
The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Masculinities Studies
Feminist scholarship on masculinities ossified into a recognizable 'subfield' of gender studies, in part, through systematically centering the work of a very small group of white men. This process of collective centering works as an effective 'exclusionary practice' that I argue hinders both the scholarly and political potential of this field. This article examines the transformation of the status of the subfield alongside an examination of women…
The White Hands of Death in America
Tristan Bridges and Maya Chatterjee on Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
On the enduring relationship between masculinity and homophobia
Recent research in the social sciences suggests a methodological paradox as scholars work to make sense of the contemporary relationship between masculinity and homophobia. Representative surveys consistently find dramatically decreasing levels of sexual prejudice among all groups, among men and young men in particular. Qualitative scholarship, however, continues to find that enactments of homophobia remain integral components of contemporary mas…
Google, Tell Me. Is He Gay? Masculinity, Heterosexuality, and Gendered Anxieties in Google Search Queries about Sexuality
It is difficult to gauge people’s acceptance about same-sex sexualities, as responses to questionnaires are prone to social desirability bias. We offer a new proxy for understanding popular concern surrounding same-sex sexualities: prevalence of Google searches demonstrating concern over gay/lesbian sexual identities. Using Google Trends data, we find that Google searches about whether a specific person is gay or lesbian show patterned bias towar…
Masculinity and Covid-19
Antifeminism, Profeminism, and the Myth of White Men's Disadvantage
This article analyzes how members of antifeminist and profeminist men’s groups discursively situate themselves as stigmatized by privilege. While the antifeminist men engage in symbolic disclosures that locate (white) men as the “real victims” of gender inequality, the profeminist men rely on strategies of disidentification to symbolically position themselves as somehow outside of the relations of gender and racial power and privilege they organi…
A Kaleidoscope of Identities
Contemporary theoretical tools in the social sciences and humanities hinder an understanding of the dynamic interplay between reflexivity and routine in the formation of sex, gender, and sexual identities. In A Kaleidoscope of Identities, James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges build on the work of feminist sociologists in examining the relationship among situational interaction, accountability, and relational and discursive social structures …
Hegemonic Masculinity
Sociology (31 works) · Gender Studies (27 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Masculinity (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Hegemonic masculinity (7 works)