Am I Kenough? (Barbie and) Ken’s masculinity in process
Whilst the Barbie movie (2023) has been recognized as a feminist success especially for women, it has important – yet often overlooked – insights for masculinities and men. What might a movie about ‘becoming' have to say to the Kens of today and their masculinities, often considered ‘fragile�...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2024
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2024, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 1–14 |
| Further subjects: | B
Masculinity
B Process theology B Ken B Barbie B Theological Anthropology B Catherine Keller |
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| Summary: | Whilst the Barbie movie (2023) has been recognized as a feminist success especially for women, it has important – yet often overlooked – insights for masculinities and men. What might a movie about ‘becoming' have to say to the Kens of today and their masculinities, often considered ‘fragile' and ‘in crisis’? In this essay, I argue that Barbie is a work of Kellerian process theology. This is particularly enlightening for understanding gender and masculinities. In asserting that, in this movie, masculinities are in-process, or in-becoming, I show how Ken’s masculinity is actually part of a co-creative discernment process with the Other (Barbie), in which gender is negotiated and explored. Using beginnings as my framework, I will show how masculinities ought not be yet another aspiration of an idealistic incarnation of a hegemonic Ken but be recognized as already in an ongoing creational process, relationally and yet uniquely performed. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2024.2352338 |