Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Business and Management., Sociology, Women's and gender studies, Social issues

Publication Details

Competitive paper presented at 12th Conference on Gender, Marketing and Consumer Behavior (Gender ACR), Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 June 2014.

Dee Duffy's paper was awarded an honorable mention by the Gender ACR committee at Aalto University, Finland.

Abstract

This paper draws upon Foucauldian theory and considers Eric Anderson's (2009) more recent inclusive masculinity theory to explore how young Irish men construct their masculine identities and come to know themselves through their engagement with consumption and leisure practices. Locating the subject within influential discursive regimes allows for the consideration of identity construction as interconnected with one’s lived existence in the social world. This paper focuses on two practices: national sport and fashionable self-presentation. My findings show how new patterns of power relationships gradually develop, cultivating new constructions of masculinity. However, and challenging Anderson’s emancipatory tone of inclusive masculinities as a solution to the ‘constraining’ powers of orthodox masculinity, this study instead highlights the cyclical nature of power and resistance in the construction of gender identity projects.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7QJ6H


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