Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, and the Sexual Stigmatization of Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2049136
AutoresBrian N Sweeney (Long Island University), Brian Sweeney (Long Island University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume37
Fascículo3
Páginas369-390
Data de publicação2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSymbolic Interaction (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0195-6086 • E-ISSN: 1533-8665
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/symb.113
OpenAlexW1928635678
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas39
Referências citadas52

Collegiate hookup culture advances ideas of masculinity but contradicts notions of appropriate feminine sexuality. Drawing on focus group and interview data with college students, I examine how a group of class- and race-privileged fraternity men face dilemmas as they enact a group constructed masculinity focused on sexual performance and the objectification of women. I employ a symbolic interactionist framework to illustrate how men, attentive to peer status yet anxious about the sexual stigmatization of women, draw on cultural ideas about appropriate feminine sexuality as they account for their approaches to sex and women (bothwith whomthey interact sexually andhow) along a range of intimacy-from hookups to committed relationships. I demonstrate that heterosexual interaction does not unequivocally link to masculine status and that men sometimes strive to limit the impact of casual sex or avoid it altogether

Casual · Developmental psychology · Fraternity · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Masculinity · Objectification · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society