“MAN UP!” On Masculinity and Childhood

Abstract

This piece sails in time and space, collecting memories in an effort to show instead of tell how masculinity is inculcated in children by parents. I use autoethnography to present scenes collected from three different moments of my life. I reflect on gender norms reproduced as complementary/opposite meanings, in which hierarchy remains, placing men above women.

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autoethnography masculinity studies performance ethnography

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