RT Article
T1 The Reproduction of the Hypermasculine Male: Select Subaltern Views
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 66
IS 6
SP 799
OP 818
A1 Hamman, Jaco J. 1967-
LA English
PB Springer Science Business Media B. V.
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565839404
AB 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.
K1 AGGRESSION (Psychology)
K1 Ashis Nandy
K1 FANON, Frantz, 1925-1961
K1 Frantz Fanon
K1 Gaming
K1 Gender
K1 Hypermasculinity
K1 Kishonna Gray
K1 Maleness
K1 Masculinity
K1 Nancy Chodorow
K1 NANDY, Ashis
K1 Postcolonial Theory
K1 Psychoanalysis
K1 Socialization
K1 Virtual games
DO 10.1007/s11089-017-0775-z