Scholars across disciplines operationalize masculinity as a cultural construct internally complicated by its multiplex and divisive anchoring to life phases. This critical review essay examines various dimensions of this internal division by looking at sociological, political, historical as well as comparative, social, psychological, and linguistic anthropologists' theorizing of maturity and gender as interdependent cultural foci. It reviews Carthesian and intersectional models to arrive at a more thorough temporalities-minded appraisal of “genders.” Masculinity appears thoroughly structured and ordered by ideas of temporality, so that its conventional moral and analytic anchoring in “men” or “adults” can be examined as being centrist, a-historical and a-cultural.
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