A strategy of masculinity: Masculine reticence in private sphere

Year 2015, , 130 - 145, 01.06.2015

Atilla Barutçu

https://doi.org/10.1501/Fe0001_0000000137

Cited By: 4

Abstract

A strategy of masculinity: Masculine reticence in private sphere In recent years, critical studies of men and masculinities give a chance to examine masculinity in all areas and provide to explore the different relationalities. This article focuses on the relationship between men and home. It first assumed that men probably uses reticence as a tool to position themselves at home, a place that is attributed to women, and to stay stronger as they are in public space. In this context, it is argued that reticence as a masculine and voluntarily attitude is different than silence, and it is a strategy rather than a tactic because it is used by the powerful one. Argument that the men use masculine reticence as a strategy at home is supported by the interviews. The article focuses on the relationship between men, home and talking explored that masculine reticence is an important strategy for men to link themselves with home without losing their masculinity and being feminized

Keywords

Masculine reticence, strategy, masculinity, home, family

Bir erkeklik stratejisi: Özel alanda eril suskunluk

Abstract

Son yıllarda gelişmekte olan erkekler ve erkeklikler üzerine eleştirel çalışmalar, erkekliği her alanda sorgulamaya fırsat tanımış ve erkekliğin pek çok alanda farklı ilişkiselliklerinin keşfedilmesini sağlamıştır. Bu makale bu ilişkiselliğin bir örneği olarak erkeklerin ev ile kurdukları ilişki üzerinde duracaktır. Makale, erkeklerin kadınlara atfedilen bir alan olan ev içinde kendilerini konumlandırabilmek ve kamusal alandaki üstünlüklerini sürdürebilmek için suskun kalmayı bazen bir araç olarak kullandıklarından yola çıkmıştır. Bu bağlamda suskunluğun sessizlikten farklı olarak bilinçli yapılan eril bir davranış olduğu, taktikten farklı olarak ise güçlü olanın uyguladığı bir strateji olduğu savunulmuştur ve erkeklerin eril suskunluğu ev içinde bir erkeklik stratejisi olarak kullandığı yapılan mülakatlarla desteklenmiştir. Erkeklik, ev ve konuşma ilişkisine yoğunlaşan makalede eril suskunluğun erkeğin ev içinde kadınsılaşma tehlikesi yaşamadan ve erkekliğine zarar vermeden mekânsal ilişki kurabilmesi için önemli bir araç olduğu keşfedilmiştir

Keywords

Eril suskunluk, strateji, erkeklik, ev, aile

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