Abstract

RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZ, Juan Carlos. De acomplejado a arrollador: Semiótica de la masculinidad. Desacatos [online]. 2004, n.15-16, pp.33-51. ISSN 2448-5144.

Masculinity is a social construction of the male subject in constant transformation. What is at stake in this construction is the symbolic premises that support the social practice, the relationships established by the subject with himself and with other individual and collective actors. This socially structured process is also modified by the actions of the individual subject. With the aim of showing how the construction of masculinity comes into being, the author uses an interdisciplinary approach that includes ethnography, socio-semiotics and the gender perspective. An analysis of the discourse is presented from the self-representation of a male and the social relationships he establishes with his family and wider social spheres. Multiple actors participate and have an impact on -to different degrees- the way in which the subject's masculinity is formed. He makes a balance of the different options presented in his socio-cultural context. He adopts and adapts a way of constructing himself as a masculine subject, the one he believes is the most adequate for the social recognition that could be achieved. Man appropriates the symbolic universe about gender, especially concerning masculinity, and thus establishes his social practice.

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