Masculinity Studies

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Research Article| April 01 2018 Masculinity Studies Kishonna L. Gray Kishonna L. Gray Kishonna L. Gray is an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her work broadly intersects identity and new media, with a particular focus on gaming. She is working on a monograph tentatively titled On Being Black and … The Journey to Intersectionality in Digital Gaming Culture, currently under contract with Louisiana State University Press. Follow her on Twitter @KishonnaGray. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Feminist Media Histories (2018) 4 (2): 107–112. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.107 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kishonna L. Gray; Masculinity Studies. Feminist Media Histories 1 April 2018; 4 (2): 107–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.2.107 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentFeminist Media Histories Search Keywords: feminism, hegemony, masculinity, media, narrative One of the significant contributions of feminist theory is the critical examination of masculinity and heterosexual oppression. For example, lesbian and radical feminists examine women's subordination to men in a heterosexual hierarchy and highlight the problem of male domination over women in challenging the institution of heterosexuality.1 From this perspective, male domination over women is the fundamental problem and the fundamental injustice within the system of heterosexuality, and a particular focus is placed on men as being core arbiters of this structure. Recent work in masculinity studies has criticized this essentialist thinking, arguing that masculinity takes on a multiplicity of forms and arises out of social interaction, not biology, and focuses on the role of marginalized groups in perpetuating oppression.2 This focus moves the discussion of masculinity and heterosexuality from unspoken and accepted assumptions to the social arena, where the gender order is fluid, and where masculinity is,... You do not currently have access to this content.