The fantasy of the new man: norm-critique, vulnerability and victimhood

IF 2.1 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

NORMA Pub Date : 2022-05-28 DOI:10.1080/18902138.2022.2075666

Josef Olsson, Johanna Lauri

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this article, the Swedish gender-equality initiative Men and Gender Equality is analyzed. The goal is to empirically examine some of the affective dimensions at play in the ways in which a ‘norm-critical’ perspective on masculinity is articulated as a solution to gender equality. Our analysis reveals ambivalences operating within the initiative’s use of norm-critical perspectives. Despite the apparent intention to offer men the hope of emancipating themselves from sedimented practices and modes of being men, these end up potentially reinforcing certain assumptions and aspects of extant society. They include (neo-)liberal assumptions about individual responsibility as well as post-feminist and anti-feminist discursive logics and tropes. With a theoretical focus on fantasy, we show how a reformist attempt to reimagine what male identities could be ends up perpetuating certain myths and assumptions that work against the emancipatory vision nurtured within such discourses.

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新男人的幻想:规范批判，脆弱和受害者

本文分析了瑞典性别平等倡议“男性与性别平等”。我们的目标是通过经验来检验一些在发挥作用的情感维度，在这些维度中，“规范批判”的男性气质视角被阐述为性别平等的解决方案。我们的分析揭示了在使用规范-批判视角的主动性中操作的矛盾心理。尽管这些明显的意图是为男性提供将自己从沉淀的实践和作为男性的模式中解放出来的希望，但这些最终可能会强化现有社会的某些假设和方面。它们包括(新)自由主义关于个人责任的假设，以及后女权主义和反女权主义的话语逻辑和修辞。通过对幻想的理论关注，我们展示了改良主义者如何试图重新想象男性身份，最终使某些神话和假设永久化，这些神话和假设与这些话语中培养的解放愿景背道而驰。

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NORMA Social Sciences-Gender Studies

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

14.30%

发文量

期刊介绍： NORMA is an international journal for high quality research concerning masculinity in its many forms. This is an interdisciplinary journal concerning questions about the body, about social and textual practices, and about men and masculinities in social structures. We aim to advance theory and methods in this field. We hope to present new themes for critical studies of men and masculinities, and develop new approaches to ''intersections'' with race, sexuality, class and coloniality. We are eager to have conversations about the role of men and boys, and the place of masculinities, in achieving gender equality and social equality. The journal was begun in the Nordic region; we now strongly invite scholarly work from all parts of the world, as well as research about transnational relations and spaces. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Editorial Manager.