Abstract

VENEGAS, Mar. Masculinity as a mask: class, gender and sexuality in youth masculinities. Convergencia [online]. 2020, vol.27, e14142.  Epub Nov 17, 2020. ISSN 2448-5799.  https://doi.org/10.29101/crcs.v27i0.14142.

The study of masculinities holds a prominent place in Feminist and Gender Studies nowadays. This paper presents an analysis based on in-depth personal interviews from three case studies in Compulsory Secondary Education, with the aim of analyzing adolescent masculinities (12-18 years of age) in a city in southern Spain and their representation of sexuality, understood as a "mask" that is constructed through gender socialization and subjectivation processes to later on identify the class and gender marks that define these two processes. The results reveal a conflict between the dominant social norm regarding sexuality, internalized through gender socialization, and resistance to such norm, activating gender subjectivation. The resolution of this conflict describes the process of construction of the mask that adolescent masculinity is, in which the marks of social class become evident as well.

Keywords : masculinity; youth; sexuality; gender; social class.

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