The results highlight the importance of addressing concepts of masculinity and related hegemonic ideas in order to decrease the influence of the barriers that exist for Thai men with alcohol addiction with regard to entering treatment and to stop drinking.
These barriers highlight the importance of addressing masculinity and hegemonic ideas in order to decrease the influence of the barriers before, during and after treatment for Thai men with alcohol addiction.
'The End of Men', 'Are Men Obsolete?', 'Are Men Necessary?' are all books released in the last few years which ruminate on the idea that hegemonic masculinity as we know it is dead.
The concept has been widely used and debated, and over the years refined (Connell and Messerschmidt 2005), with the basic idea that hegemonic masculinity is 'a culturally idealized form' and 'is both a personal and a collective project' (Donaldson 1993, 645).
Toni Negri and I argue that immaterial or biopolitical production is emerging in that hegemonic position – the production of ideas, information, images, knowledges, code, languages, social relationships, affects and the like.
The UnHerd isn't doesn't represent people who have been silenced, it represents people whose ideas are no longer hegemonic.
Minnich and other feminist thinkers have shown us how many traditional theorists have been blinded by their inability to conceive of ideas outside of the dominant hegemonic traditions.
This idea was primarily developed around the notion of hegemonic masculinity (4).
Hegemonic masculinity, rooted in patriarchy, is fundamentally based on the idea of male superiority over women (15, 21), and South African men are expected to demonstrate this and demonstrate control over women (24).
