Hegemonic Masculinity in the Theory of Hegemony

A Brief Response to Christine Beasley's “Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a Globalizing World

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ID2387845
AuthorsRichard Howson (0000-0002-7512-0520, University of Wollongong, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume11
Issue1
Pages109-113
Publication date2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMen and Masculinities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1097184x08315105
OpenAlexW1973771653
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited6

The article “Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in a Globalizing World” by Christine Beasley (2008) begins to articulate a set of theoretical issues that for masculinities studies today, marked as it is by the “ethnographic moment,” are of some considerable importance because they offer a much needed infusion of “realism” to the abstractions of “sex-role theory . . . biological essentialism, religious revivalism and mystical generalities” that have become part of contemporary Western culture’s understanding of men and masculinities (Connell 2005, 71). But more, it has enabled the opening up of new spaces from which questions can be raised about key theoretical axioms, such as hegemonic masculinity. The article by Beasley is a significant example of this new critique

Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Political theory and Gramsci

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