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Thirty years of scholarship on men and masculinities paint a rather grim picture of oppressive but insecure men, benefiting from patriarchy and male privilege but living under a constant ‘burden of proof’, consistently called upon to demonstrate their manliness and avoid the slightest hint of femininity (Kimmel 2006). Popular and scholarly concern suggests boys and young men are ‘adrift’, lazy, absorbed in video games, and underachieving as compared to their female peers (cf. Sax 2007). When they are not bullying their peers or committing crimes on the streets, they are slacking off in school and failing to transition to productive adulthood. Despite their theoretical advances, both youth and masculinity studies have at times inadvertently produced a caricature of misogynist and alienated young men that fails to capture the increasingly complicated masculinities of the 21st century. Where are the spaces in which men, especially young men, stretch the confines of patriarchal masculinity?
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Haenfler, R. (2015). Transitioning to a New Manhood: Subcultures as Sites of Inclusive Masculinity. In: Woodman, D., Bennett, A. (eds) Youth Cultures, Transitions, and Generations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137377234_10
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