Erkek Utancını Anlamak

Year 2014, Issue: 1, 7 - 27, 05.08.2016

Aneta Stepien

Abstract

Bu makale, erkek cinsiyetinin kültürel işleyişine yönelik daha iyi bir kavrayış geliştirme amacıyla, kadın utancından farklı olarak, bizzat erkeklerin kendileri için utanç verici kabul edilen bir duygu olarak gözüken erkek utancının paradokslarını açıklamayı hedefliyor. Bu çözümleme, utanç üzerine disiplinlerarası araştırmalara ve erkekliklerin kültürel temsillerine dayanarak, ilkin erkek utancının namus bağlamında yaorumlandığı ataerkil bağlamlarda yapmakta. Bu makale ayrıca, feminizmin doğrudan doğruya erkek bedenine uygulayıp erkek utancını yeniden konumlandırarak erkek rollerini yeniden tanımlaması vasıtasıyla, feminist söylemlerin eril hegemonya üzerinde yol açtığı rahatsızlıkların izlerini sürmektedir. Sonuçta ise bu yazı Steven McQueen’in Shame (2011) filmine odaklanarak, utanç postmodern erkeğe uygulandığında onu bir perişan haline getirdiğini ortaya koymak amacıyla utancı çağdaş kent bağlamında ele almakta. Erkeğin temelini çürütme ve onu iğdiş etme yetisine sahip bir duygu olarak utanç, erkek kimliğini korumak amacıyla maskelenmeli ve baskılanmalıdır

Keywords

erkeklik, utanç, namus, ataerkillik, hegemonik erkeklik, feminizm, erkek bedeni, çıplaklık, penis

Understanding Male Shame

Abstract

In pursuit of a better understanding of the cultural functioning of male gender, this paper aims to explain the paradoxes of shame in men, which, as distinguished from female shame, appears to be an emotion interdisciplinary research on shame, and on masculinity in cultural representations, this analysis begins with an overview of the status of shame in patriarchal contexts, where male shame has been interpreted in terms of honour. Furthermore, the paper traces the disturbance to the masculine hegemony brought by feminist discourses, looking at the ways in which the redefinition of male roles by feminism repositions male shame, as now applying directly to the male body. Finally, based on the film by Steven McQueen Shame (2011), the paper discusses shame in the contemporary, urban context to reveal that shame in application to postmodern man becomes an abject. As an emotion that has the ability to undermine and emasculate men, shame, in particular when applied to the idea of masculinity based on performance, has to be masked and suppressed to protect male identity

Keywords

masculinity, shame, honour, patriarchy, hegemonic masculinity, feminism, male body, nakedness, penis

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