- Title
- ‘Feminine Threshold’: Theorizing Masculine Embodiment with Latinx Men
- Creator
- Haro, Adriana
- Relation
- Youth Vol. 4, Issue 3, p. 983-1003
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/youth4030062
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- The aim of this paper is to discuss how young Latinx men living in Australia negotiate, embody, and complicate existing dominant and racialized masculinities. Queer and feminist theories are used to explore how Latinx men negotiate and embody masculinities, sexualities, and being ‘other’ in a White dominant cultural context. These tensions were explored through semi-structured in-depth interviews and a creative visual method known as sandboxing with twenty-one Latinx men. Sandboxing aims to elicit conversation and allows for the reflection and sharing of a visual and symbolic representation of participants’ lives. The findings suggest masculinities are lived and embodied alongside negotiating racialization and sexualities. The fluidity of masculinities surfaces in participants’ reflexive engagement with masculinities and the nuances in negotiating and simultaneously reproducing gender binary norms. Participants’ careful negotiation in engaging with feminine culture led to developing the concept ‘feminine threshold’, a theoretical contribution offered in this article, in understanding how Latinx men negotiate masculinities.
- Subject
- gender; embodiment; arts-based methods; masculinities; Latinx; queer
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1511625
- Identifier
- uon:56518
- Identifier
- ISSN:2673-995X
- Rights
- © 2024 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Language
- eng
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