Han Yuchen
School of Humanities and Social Science The Chinese University of Hongkong Shenzhen China.
Gend Work Organ. 2021 Sep;28(5):1876-1884. doi: 10.1111/gwao.12713. Epub 2021 May 26.
This article documents the reconstructed domestic masculinity of a retired Chinese man during the COVID-19 quarantine period in China. It is based on participant observation of the man and his family as a case study. It demonstrates how the man turns kitchen work into a "masculine" job, and uses it as a contested terrain for constructing hegemonic masculinity by adopting scientific discourse explicitly and traditional patriarchal discourse implicitly. It also highlights women's conscious and deliberate interactions with the man in contributing to the making of hegemonic masculinity for the sake of their own values of happiness. The author seeks an understanding of the intersection of aging, patriarchal norms, and women's agency through the case of the co-production of a retired man's hegemonic masculinity in the context of the COVID-19 quarantine.
本文记录了一名退休中国男性在新冠疫情防控居家隔离期间重塑的家庭男性气质。它基于对该男性及其家庭的参与观察这一案例研究。它展示了该男性如何将厨房工作转变为一项“男性化”工作，并通过明确采用科学话语和隐含运用传统父权话语，将其作为构建霸权男性气质的争议领域。它还强调了女性为了自身的幸福价值观，有意识且刻意地与该男性互动，以促成霸权男性气质的形成。作者试图通过新冠疫情防控居家隔离背景下一名退休男性霸权男性气质共同生成的案例，来理解老龄化、父权规范和女性能动性的交叉点。
