Knowra Hegemonic masculinity Hegemonic masculinity Hegemonic masculinity is a culturally dominant model of masculinity that legitimizes men's authority and ranks other masculinities. It operates as an ideal that sustains gender hierarchy, not necessarily as the most common way men live.
Gender order : A society-wide pattern of relationships and institutions organized around gender. Hegemonic masculinity is a pattern within the gender order that helps organize men's authority.
R. W. Connell : An Australian sociologist whose work developed influential theories of gender relations and masculinities. Connell formulated hegemonic masculinity as part of a relational theory of gender.
Toxic masculinity : A popular term for masculine norms associated with harm, such as aggression and emotional suppression. Unlike this framework, it often judges traits rather than mapping relations among masculinities.
Military masculinity : Masculine ideals associated with military institutions, including toughness, discipline, and controlled aggression. Military institutions provide a prominent setting for examining and enforcing masculine ideals.
Transnational business masculinity : A globally influential ideal of managerial masculinity associated with mobile corporate elites. It tests how contemporary economic power reshapes dominant masculine ideals across borders.
Patriarchy : A social system in which men hold disproportionate power in families, institutions, and public life. The masculine ideal helps legitimize the authority that patriarchal arrangements distribute to men.
Masculinities (book) : R. W. Connell’s 1995 book analyzing multiple masculinities and their relations to gender power. The book gives the concept its clearest systematic formulation.
Masculinity : A set of social meanings, practices, and identities associated with being a man or boy. Hegemonic masculinity is one historically situated pattern within the broader concept.
Sport and masculinity : The study of how sporting cultures produce and contest gendered identities and power. Sport can reward bodily strength and competition while marginalizing other masculinities.
Intersectionality : An approach examining how systems of power interact to shape social positions and experience. It challenges accounts that treat gender hierarchy apart from race, class, and other relations.
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