KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypermasculinity, Discourse Analysis, Abercrombie & Fitch

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Embodying the skinny-self through constructions of the fat masculine other. In the current sociopolitical context, the lean, muscular body has come to epitomize masculine health and beauty. Sociocultural positioning influences how young men take up, make sense of, and articulate constructions of fatness and demonstrate how such articulations function in the materialization of their normal embodied subjectivities. Biomedical and aesthetic discourses construct fatness as unhealthy, unattractive and immoral. Body shapes and sizes of young people, particularly boys and young men have been identified as health problems in need of expert surveillance and intervention. Cultural constructions of masculinity, health, and beauty have made it increasingly difficult tp position fastness as a feminist issue. Qualitative inquiry with thirty two skinny young men (13-15yrs) from two distinct locations in. Toronto to interrogate how young men take up and negotiate dominant constructions of fatness in the materialization of their situated masculine subjectivities.