@article{ref1,
title="Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing 'hyper-masculinity' through Seattle's gay, leather community",
journal="Gender, place and culture",
year="2016",
author="Childs, Andrew",
volume="23",
number="9",
pages="1315-1328",
abstract="This article offers a critique of the concept of hyper-masculinity and a more nuanced, place contingent, critical way to think about masculinity. I use the concept of hyper-masculinity to highlight a conceptual problem between essentialist and de-essentialized notions of gender. Constructionist notions of masculinity (and gender) do not escape the essentialist problem; however, by critiquing and offering a placed conceptualization of hyper-masculinity based on Seattle's gay leather community, I push the boundaries of masculinity and gender to arrive at a more nuanced, embodied, place-based and contingent understanding of hyper-masculinity thereby side-stepping debates that essentialist/constructionist. Through participant-observations and ethnographic interviews with men who practice hyper-masculinity within the gay leather community in Seattle, USA, I interrogate hyper-masculinity within the community to demonstrate how it reinforces and subverts heterosexual gender roles and homonormativity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0966-369X",
doi="10.1080/0966369X.2016.1160033",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1160033"
}