Masculinities in Transformation and Reconfiguration of Intimacies Between Men of the AMBA
In recent decades, the constant interweaving between the intimacy of public life and the commodification of privacy has gained major relevance for the social sciences. Likewise, it was pointed out that the ways of thinking about hegemonic masculinities (and their mandates) are plural, in constant di...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/44739 |
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| Sumario: | In recent decades, the constant interweaving between the intimacy of public life and the commodification of privacy has gained major relevance for the social sciences. Likewise, it was pointed out that the ways of thinking about hegemonic masculinities (and their mandates) are plural, in constant dispute (Connell and Messerschmidt, 2005; Archetti, 2003), and affected by economic, social and racial inequalities (Bourgois, 2010; Jiménez, 2004).
In this article, we analyze, from an ethnographic methodology and perspective, the limits and possibilities that men from the AMBA (Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires) find to put their intimacy into practice. Firstly, we reconstruct the place that intimacy has had in the emergence of modernity and the consolidation of the public and private spheres that established a series of oppositions and dualisms and, more contemporaneously, has allowed us to begin to think about a type of overlapping intimacy with the public world (Arfuch, 2005). Secondly, we focus on the ways of thinking about and experiencing intimacies for and by men, and how they are linked to the transformations and disputes in masculine subjectivities.
The dimension of the domestic as well as the sphere of communication of emotions constitute problematic aspects and may be the cause of great discomfort for men in the constitution of new types of masculine identities and subjectivities. The spatial dimension, which involves the management of proximities and the requirements of the labor market, exhibits new modes and an exercise of masculinities that show that they are being tested and resignified in a social context in transformation. |
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