TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Aggressive and loving men: gender hegemony in Christian hardcore punk
JO  - Gender and society
A1  - McDowell, Amy D.
SP  - 223
EP  - 244
VL  - 31
IS  - 2
N2  - This research uses Christian Hardcore punk to show how evangelical Christian men respond to changes in gender relations that threaten hegemonic masculinity through a music subculture. Drawing on interviews and participant observations of live music shows, I find that Christian Hardcore ministry involves a hybrid mix of aggressive and loving performances of manhood. Christian Hardcore punk men fortify the idea that men and women are essentially opposites through discourse and the segregation of music spaces, even as they deviate from dominant ideas of what makes a man in their strategy of openly expressing the "loving" of secular men. The mechanism for this is the interactions in concert spaces. These findings offer a conceptual move away from studying "godly" masculinity as intrinsically distinct from secular masculinity and illustrate how religious masculinities can be both hegemonic and "soft."<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0891-2432
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243217694824
ID  - ref1
ER  -