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Missing from Masculinity Studies: Aesthetics, Erotics, Existence
Abstract
During recent years, the intersectionalist paradigm has become prominent in gender studies. No doubt this has led to new and important insights on hierarchical and dichotomous relations between masculinity and femininity; as well as on the connections between gender hierarchies/dichotomies and racial, ethnical, religious, sexual and other hierarchies/dichotomies. However, the time has come to ask whether analysing masculinity in terms of hierarchies and dichotomies is turning into a bit of an automatic machinery, repeating itself without due respect for the diversities and nuances of the phenomena it wants to study. It must further be asked if the intersectionalist paradigm should be complemented by introducing other analytic frameworks that may help sharpen attention to other relevant aspects. In particular, I want to discuss the possible inspirations that might be taken from existential and aesthetic thinking, as represented for instance in the work of Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault (after 1971), Roland Barthes (after 1971) and Michel Maffesoli, as well as including some aspects of my own work in the field over 30 years.
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English
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Conference Paper
Publication Date
August 5, 2016
Submission Date
August 5, 2016
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Year 2014 Number: 2