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Negotiating masculinities via the moral problematization of sport

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posted on 2010-06-01, 00:00 authored by R Pringle, Chris HickeyChris Hickey
Researchers have raised concerns about the construction of dangerous/problematic masculinities within sporting fratriarchies1. Yet little is known about how male sport enthusiasts—critical of hypermasculine performances—negotiate their involvement in sport. Our aim was to examine how males negotiated sporting tensions and how these negotiations shaped their (masculine) selves. We drew on Foucault (1992) to analyze how interviewees problematized their respective sport culture in relation to the sexualization of females, public drunkenness and excessive training demands. Results illustrated how the interviewees produced selves, via the moral problematization of sport, that rejected the values or moral codes of hypermasculinity in attempts to create ethical masculinities. We suggest that a proliferation of techniques of self that resist hypermasculine forms of subjection could be one form of ethical response to the documented problems surrounding masculinities and sport.

History

Journal

Sociology of sport journal

Volume

27

Issue

2

Pagination

115 - 138

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Location

Champaign, Ill.

ISSN

0741-1235

eISSN

1543-2785

Language

eng

Notes

Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2010, Human Kinetics, Inc.