TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Hyper or hypo-masculine? Re-conceptualizing 'hyper-masculinity' through Seattle's gay, leather community
JO  - Gender, place and culture
A1  - Childs, Andrew
SP  - 1315
EP  - 1328
VL  - 23
IS  - 9
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0966-369X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2016.1160033
ID  - ref1
ER  -