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At any given time a culture, there will be many competing masculinities in play, all available to be discursively reproduced by speakers. But of these competing masculinities, one will predominate. It is this form of masculinity — hegemonic masculinity — that I shall focus on in this chapter.1 My aim is to explore the role of heterosexuality in the formation of contemporary masculinities in Britain, in particular in the formation of hegemonic masculinity, drawing on a database of spontaneous conversation collected over the last ten years or so.
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Coates, J. (2013). ‘Everyone Was Convinced That We Were Closet Fags’: The Role of Heterosexuality in the Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity [2007]. In: Women, Men and Everyday Talk. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314949_10
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