‘Show us your frilly, pink underbelly’: Men administrative assistants doing masculinities and femininity

J. Lotus Seeley

Gender, Work and Organization, 2018, vol. 25, issue 4, 418-436

Abstract: Research on men tokens (or numerical minorities) at work has focused on the processes by which men try to claim hegemonic masculine identities for themselves and how workplace interactants support or reject these attempts. In contrast to masculinity studies, token theory has paid less attention to non†hegemonic masculinities. Using interviews with men administrative assistants, I develop a more comprehensive understanding of men tokens' gender performances and their significance for gender inequality. I present a four†part typology: hegemonic masculinity, alternative masculinity, critical masculinity and male femininity. The categories are differentiated along two axes: support for hegemonic masculinity and support for hierarchical, binary gender.

Date: 2018
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