国外人文地理学男性气质研究回顾与启示

国外关于男性气质(Masculinity)的研究由来已久,地理学关于男性气质的探讨最早出现于女性主义的研究中,地理学者通过对其他学科相关理论的引用以及女性主义研究方法的借鉴,采用文本分析、个案研究等方法,对男性气质,特别是支配性男性气质(Hegemonic Masculinity)、乡村与城市男性气质等内容进行了深入的分析与探讨,并将男性气质的理论发展到了城市地理学、经济地理学、人口地理学、后殖民主义地理学等分支学科中。地理学者采用建构理论,综合社会、文化、性别和女性主义地理等多元视角,不仅分析了男性身份政治的形成过程,而且探索了不同男性身份政治形成的空间与环境,并尝试建构男性气质地理学。本文试图通过对国外人文地理学关于男性气质研究的回顾和梳理,为国内人文地理学中男性气质的研究提供指导与借鉴。

On masculinity studies in Anglo-American human geography

Western geographers started to analyze masculinity in the late 1970s. The analysis first appeared in feminist studies in order to demonstrate a parallel between women and men. The most popular concept is hegemonic masculinity. Influenced by the emerging notion of cultural politics, geographers deploy a constructionist approach to integrate multiple views of social geography, cultural studies, and gender studies into their analyses of masculinity in various contexts. In general, geographers focus on the process of masculine identity construction and how different social and spatial contexts shape this process. This article reviews human geographers' work on masculinity so as to provoke more research interest among geographers in mainland China in exploring this important topic.