Masculinities: the emergency of new subjects in the socio-political track

Abstract

This article gathers part of the theoretical framework of our research titled "New masculinities. Origins and perspectives of male anti-patriarchal organizations", from the Research Professors Program (PROINCE). The research is carried out at the National University of La Matanza, funded by this University, is accredited by the Ministry of Education of the Nation and is being implemented by a team made up entirely of social workers.

Feminism has contributed not only to install a profound theoretical debate on gender equality, but has allowed to implement new transformations in this matter. The study of the so-called new masculinities is one of them.

The investigation of the processes of construction of new masculinities is framed theoretically in anti-patriarchal studies, which postulate new forms that assume masculinities at present and that understand the arbitrary and contingent character of the principle of the difference between masculine and feminine. Masculinities, as a cultural construction, requires us to distance ourselves from naturalist, heteronormative and immutable perspectives, in order to think about new and diverse ways of being male, including the questioning of the privileges imposed by patriarchy on men by their sole condition.

The text addresses categories such as patriarchy, hegemonic masculinity: its mandates and its risks, new masculinities, the homosocial validation of masculinity, the idea of ​​"new good men" as a political bet for a liberating ethic, among others.