The Reproduction of the Hypermasculine Male: Select Subaltern Views

Since the 1500s, masculinity and the socialization of men have been defined by colonization. This essay explores the hypermasculine male as a person unemotional yet fearful of intimacy, void of non-masculine attachments and identifications, competitive and aggressive, strong, independent, dominant,...

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Published in:Pastoral psychology
Main Author: Hamman, Jaco J. 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2017]
In: Pastoral psychology
IxTheo Classification:NBE Anthropology
VA Philosophy
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Maleness
B Masculinity
B Postcolonial Theory
B Virtual games
B NANDY, Ashis
B Ashis Nandy
B Kishonna Gray
B Gender
B Nancy Chodorow
B FANON, Frantz, 1925-1961
B Hypermasculinity
B Psychoanalysis
B Frantz Fanon
B Gaming
B Socialization
B AGGRESSION (Psychology)
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Summary:Since the 1500s, masculinity and the socialization of men have been defined by colonization. This essay explores the hypermasculine male as a person unemotional yet fearful of intimacy, void of non-masculine attachments and identifications, competitive and aggressive, strong, independent, dominant, powerful, rational, sexist, homophobic, and generally disconnected from his own sense of self and the self of others. Nancy Chodorow's challenge for the reproduction of masculinity is understood as a call to decolonialize the hypermasculine male as exposed in the political and subaltern psychologies of Frantz Fanon and Ashis Nandy. When the hypermasculine male is not rehumanized, all people are dehumanized, especially persons of color, children, women, and the elderly, and all who are perceived as not manly enough or as not following the rules and systems set by men. The image of the hypermasculine male is recognized in select computer games, where the image is actively promoted.
ISSN:1573-6679
Contains:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0775-z