A Battle for Supremacy? Masculinities in Students’ Profane Language Use

Autor:	Grace Diabah
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Cultural Studies 050101 languages & linguistics Battle Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Gender studies Gender Studies 050903 gender studies Masculinity Commonwealth 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology 0509 other social sciences media_common
Zdroj:	The Journal of Men’s Studies. 28:260-280
ISSN:	1933-0251 1060-8265
DOI:	10.1177/1060826520905096
Popis:	This article investigates what students from University of Ghana’s Commonwealth Hall consider as marks of masculinity, through how they represent themselves and other males in their use of profanity. Data are sourced from songs, observations, and interviews. Drawing from hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities and theory of ideologies, findings indicate how these students portray themselves as embodying true masculinity, as they represent themselves as superpowers, virile, and assertive. They however marginalize other males by representing them as weaklings, “uncircumcised”, and vagina police. It is their attempt to keep these binary categories in place, which sometimes leads to confrontations between them and other male students. When they believe and articulate that they embody true masculinity, similar practices can only be interpreted as threats. The article, therefore, recommends a bigger study that includes other public universities and assesses the link between these students’ language use and their “radical” behavior.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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