Abstract
Recent social science research has made important changes in our understanding of masculinities and men's gender practices, emphasizing the plurality and hierarchy of masculinities, and their collective and dynamic character. These gains have been achieved mainly by close-focus research methods. But in a globalizing world, we must pay attention also to very large scale structures. An understanding of the world gender order is a necessary basis for thinking about men and masculinities globally. We can trace the emergence of globalizing masculinities at different stages of the history of the world gender order. Hegemony in the contemporary gender order is connected with patterns of trade, investment, and communication dominated by the North. A transnational business masculinity, institutionally based in multinational corporations and global finance markets, is arguably the emerging dominant form on a world scale.
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MasculinityGlobalizationMultinational corporationHegemonyHegemonic masculinityHierarchyGender studiesSociologyOrder (exchange)Scale (ratio)Political scienceEconomicsGeographyPolitics
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- 3-23
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Raewyn Connell
(1998).
Masculinities and Globalization.
Men and Masculinities
, 1
(1)
, 3-23.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184x98001001001
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- 10.1177/1097184x98001001001