Abstract

REDONDO ALFARO, Dennis. Legitimation Resources Around Male Domination Practices in Costa Rican Society. Subterfuges of a Declining Hegemony. Rev. Costarric. Psic [online]. 2019, vol.38, n.2, pp.125-148. ISSN 1659-2913.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22544/rcps.v38i02.02.

In the following lines, we intend to tour some terms and authors characteristic of the studies of men and masculinities, to explore elements regarding manifestations and dynamics of current male domination. First, it is important to review some concepts especially from the theory of ambivalent sexism of Glick and Fiske, followed by some derivations of this approach for the corresponding analysis. Subsequently, we outline how machismo is conserved institutionally from stable core components in history: androcentrism, misogyny, homophobia and phallocentrism.

In the end, we raise some basic reflections about disarticulating orders of hegemonic masculinity in society. Rather than a disappearance of macho patterns, patriarchy as a collective structure adapts to different scenarios related to the social context. This is always associated, in each historical era, with the difficulty of questioning it in the social groups that sustain it. Thus, it is of primordial importance to encourage in men a critical awareness of the phenomenon, to promote a transformative action and be protagonists in a process of deconstruction of traditional male norms; these are vital, in a process of disarticulation of the patriarchal system and, thus, allowing the construction of an egalitarian social system aware of gender diversity.

Keywords : Hegemonic Masculinity; Ambivalent Sexism; Machismo; Neopatriarchalism; Men; Masculinities; Patriarchy.

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