Living with Violence

Men University Students Negotiate the Masculinity Mandate in Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID2388593
AuthorsIsaac Ali Siles-Bárcenas (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Isaac Alí Siles Bárcenas (0000-0002-3878-8070, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume26
Issue4
Pages566-584
Publication date2023-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMen and Masculinities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1097-184X • E-ISSN: 1552-6828
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1097184x231151630
OpenAlexW4317663715
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

The literature on men and masculinities has established a clear and complex link between masculinity and violence. I contribute to the study of that link by exploring the relationship that men students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have had with violence along their life trajectories and in their everyday experience. I discuss this in relation to the notion of the 'masculinity mandate' put forth by feminist scholar Rita L. Segato. Through the analysis of 43 in-depth interviews with undergraduate students, I show how these young men have incorporated various forms of violence to their action repertoire to keep their masculine positions and identities stable in different moments in their lives. In many cases, this has also meant these men have had to position themselves vis-à-vis violence walking away from it, manifestly rejecting it, or overtly challenging it. Likewise, students are embarked in a process of negotiation with the different denunciations of masculine violence put forth mostly by mobilized feminist collectives and public discourse within their university context and in the city at large

Mandate · Masculinity · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender and Feminist Studies · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law

Tools

Open DOI