‘That’s what I call a man’: Representations of racialized and class masculinities in the UK print media.

Baker, Paul; Levon, Erez (2016). ‘That’s what I call a man’: Representations of racialized and class masculinities in the UK print media. Gender and Language, 10(1), pp. 106-139. Equinox 10.1558/genl.v10i1.25401

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According to Raewyn Connell, ‘being a man’ involves actively positioning one’s self in relation to culturally dominant images of masculinity. Yet, crucially, these images change depending on the social and historical context. In this paper, we examine contemporary discourses of masculinity as they are represented in the British press. In particular, we focus on the ways in which masculine representations are both racialised and classed, and how they are positioned in relation to one another within a broader ideological field of gender and power. Analyses are based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a large corpus (44.1 million words) of newspaper articles on masculinity that appeared in the UK
between 2003 and 2011. Our findings underscore the importance of adopting an intersectional approach to the study of language and masculinity, and provide support for recent critical re-evaluations of the foundational concept of hegemonic masculinity.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)

UniBE Contributor:

Levon, Erez

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
400 Language
400 Language > 410 Linguistics

ISSN:

1747-6321

Publisher:

Equinox

Language:

English

Submitter:

Erez Levon

Date Deposited:

14 Jun 2021 10:51

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:47

Publisher DOI:

10.1558/genl.v10i1.25401

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.152302

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152302

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