Dr. Bridges\, Associate Professor at the Univer sity of California Santa Barbara\, will present a lecture titled "H ybrid Masculinities and Shifts in Enactments and Meanings of Contemporary M asculinities."
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Scholarship on mas culinities emerged following a pattern in other subfields examining identit ies associated with forms of structural and cultural advantage and privileg e. Masculinity and masculine gender privilege were theorized as invisib le. But something dramatic has shifted. Privilege associated with gend er (along with other identities) is simply no longer as invisible as it onc e was. And privilege consciousness has worked in ways that have altered som e of the processes by which systems and structures of inequality are reprod uced.
Presenting data from a few different empirical projects\, I wil l unpack what this means\, how these conditions provide new ways for us to appreciate how privilege associated with masculinity works and is reworked in historical moments when it is called into new kinds of question. Buildin g on theorizations of “hybrid masculinities\,” I will discuss how gender an d sexual inequalities have the capacity to be simultaneously challenged and reproduced.
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My research is broadly concerned wit h an important dynamic in the sociology of gender—while gender is subject t o incredible variation and transformation\, gender inequality has been show n to be much more durable. My research examines this dynamic by examining shifts in the meanings and practices associated with masculinity. I am par ticularly interested in the relationship between gender\, sexuality and pow er with a focus on “hybrid” configurations of masculinity that operate in w ays that challenge and reproduce systems of inequality.
My work on “h ybrid masculinities” is concerned with the revival and retheorization of a theoretical discussion that began among scholars studying shifts in masculi nity at the end of the 20th century. Building on interdisciplinary researc h and theory concerning the gender projects of young\, straight\, white men \, “hybrid masculinities” is a theoretical framework that provides new tool s for making sense of contemporary gender and sexual inequality and unites findings from scholarship across the field–concerning questions of identity \, inequality\, and how we can interpret the meanings and consequences asso ciated with shifts in masculinity.
Presently\, I am working on a book that attempts to reconsider how we theorize about men’s relationship with gender identity and inequality in the 21st century\, tentatively entitled: Othering Other Men: Transformations in Gender and Inequality among Men< /em>.
Find out more about Dr. Tristan Bridges here.
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