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Culturally Gendered: The Institutionalization of Men and Masculinities in Society and Corporations

Culturally Gendered: The Institutionalization of Men and Masculinities in Society and Corporations

Ben Tran
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 28
ISBN13: 9781522519331|ISBN10: 1522519335|EISBN13: 9781522519348
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch055
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Tran, Ben. "Culturally Gendered: The Institutionalization of Men and Masculinities in Society and Corporations." Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1190-1217. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch055

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Tran, B. (2017). Culturally Gendered: The Institutionalization of Men and Masculinities in Society and Corporations. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1190-1217). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch055

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Tran, Ben. "Culturally Gendered: The Institutionalization of Men and Masculinities in Society and Corporations." In Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1190-1217. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch055

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Abstract

The social differentiation between males and females is a relational concept: masculinity exists and has meaning only as it contrasts with femininity, and vice versa (Connell, 1995, p. 43). Western culture, especially, prides itself on the successful integration of feminism into modern society—though some still question how successfully integrated feminism truly is while others ponder whether or not cultural power in society has been reversed. As masculinity studies developed, according to Simpson (2004), so too did the concept of multiple masculinities, the idea that men respond to and embrace masculinity in a variety of ways because the expression of masculinity can “change according to time, the event, and the perspectives” of a group or community (Imms, 2000, p. 156), as demonstrated by Heasley (2005), and men who are in female dominated occupations. Nevertheless, multiple masculinities are commonly segregated into the following categories: hegemonic, complicit, subordinated, and marginalized.

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