The Flight from the Feminine and Femmephobia in the Critical Study of Men and Masculinities

What is it about?

Is the men's studies femmephobic? Simply, does men's studies avoid discussing femininity. In the field, masculinities are constantly being constructed, new types appear in almost every issue of major journals in the field. Many times these masculinities are responses to men doing "feminine" things, and so, they have to be analysed and rewritten as masculine. Thus, when a man cares, he does "caring masculinity," if a man is a vegan, he might be called a "hegan." How do we make sense of this refusal of the feminine? Is it the men being studied or the scholars studying the. men who are "fleeing the feminine"?

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