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Praise for Hegemonic Masculinity “Likemanypowerfulconcepts,hegemonicmasculinityhasbeendeployedvariouslyasa sharp tool that clarifies the workings of the social world, as a fuzzy term that means whatever an author wants it to mean, and as a simplistic foil against which a writer attemptstoassertsomeotheridea.JamesMesserschmidt—longaleadingscholarinthe field—contributesaclearroadmaptounderstandingtheorigins,development,andcon- tinuing importance of the concept. Hegemonic Masculinity is a welcome and valuable contributiontothematurationofgendertheoryinthesocialsciences.” —MichaelA.Messner “Hegemonic Masculinity is a comprehensive and informative overview of the history, critique, reformulation, and current theory of this core concept. It is sure to become a classictextingenderstudies—anindispensableintroductionfornewstudentsandareli- ableresourceforestablishedscholars.Ihighlyrecommendit.” —JudithLorber,professoremerita,GraduateSchoolandBrooklynCollege,CUNY; authorofBreakingtheBowls:DegenderingandFeministChange Hegemonic Masculinity Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification James W. Messerschmidt University of Southern Maine ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London ExecutiveEditor:RolfJanke EditorialAssistant:CourtneyPackard SeniorMarketingManager:KimLyons PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 https://rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB, UnitedKingdom Copyright©2018byJamesW.Messerschmidt Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Messerschmidt,JamesW.,author. Title:Hegemonicmasculinity:formulation,reformulation,andamplification/JamesW. Messerschmidt,UniversityofSouthernMaine. Description:Lanham:Rowman&Littlefield,[2018]|Includesbibliographicalreferences andindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018004650(print)|LCCN2018006622(ebook)|ISBN 9781538114056(ebook)|ISBN9781538114032(hardcover:alk.paper)|ISBN 9781538114049(pbk.:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Masculinity.|Men—Psychology.|Hegemony. Classification:LCCBF692.5(ebook)|LCCBF692.5.M4692018(print)|DDC155.3/ 32—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018004650 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForRaewyn,CherishedFriend,PerceptiveMentor,and OneoftheMostImportantIntellectualsofOurTime Contents Preface ix 1 Backstory 1 2 Formulation 25 3 Reformulation 47 4 Amplification 71 5 Theory 109 6 Prospects 133 References 159 Index 173 AbouttheAuthor 181 vii Preface Feminism has continuallychallengedthemasculinenatureoftheacade- mybyilluminatingthepatternsofgenderedpowerthatsocialtheoryhad forcenturiesallbutignored.Inparticular,feminismsecuredapermanent roleforsex,gender,andsexualitypoliticsinpopularcultureandthereby movedanalysisofsex,gender,andsexualpowertotheforefrontofmuch social thought. The growth and maturation of explicit theoretical devel- opment and empirical research on masculinities followed logically from thisfeministwork. The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell (1987, 1995) more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behindtheexpandingfieldofmasculinitiesstudies.Theconcepthasnow established a long and considerable influence on the interdisciplinary understandingofgender,butinparticularmasculinity.Inspecificallythe masculinities studies literature since the 1980s, the concept has become ubiquitous, it continues to serve as the principal touchstone for most research, and it is broadly used in a wide range of disciplines—the con- cepthasproventobecrucialtoconceptualizingmasculinitiesworldwide. And the reason for the widespread popularity of the concept is that it contributesasignificantunderstandingofhowunequalgenderrelations arelegitimatedbetweenmenandwomen,masculinitiesandfemininities, andamongmasculinities. Although the concept maintains a distinctive status within gender studies across an abundance of disciplines, the concept simultaneously has often been criticized and terribly misunderstood by many scholars. Thisbookthenconcentratesonthehistoryoftheconceptanditsunique applications. The aim of Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformula- tion,andAmplificationistoencouragethecontinuedexpansionanddevel- opmentofresearchandtheorizingonhegemonicmasculinitiesaswellas tocontributeamoreexacting,careful,andmeticulousunderstandingand utilizationoftheconcept. The bulk of the book concentrates on the “formulation,” “reformula- tion,”and“amplification”oftheconcept,andincludesthe“backstory”to ix
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