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Show Queer Masculine Bodies? The Role of Marginalized Men in Contemporary Western Culture Derek Jonas (Gerda Sa under ft) Department of English What exactly"^ masculinity1" And why is rt ? rna|or component in the formatron of identity by men.nind indeed, wornen.m ccmternporarv Western ^x">ety? One appa rent and al rnosi ck h r*»spcnse is 1 hat ou r world was fermul?1ed upon and through a p^i rlar^hal schema. ^Vhile mnny fernimsts have advocated 1he more equitn tie n i i^ivjement oF pswer relationship^ men oPten continued construct "Ihe rules oF manhood v> th?t on hy the timesi fraction of men corne 1o believe- th?1 of wheels, the sturdiest oFo^ks. the rnosi virulent repudmtors of FemlnHn'rtft ite mostdarincj rnnq^jtiH to disempsv^er the overv^helmlrq rna^r'rtyoF American men by other rneans-such on the basis of race, d^ss^ ethnicity, age, or sexual rasu h; of the way rna^uhnityn define! wwnt popular nurture and conternpora ny literal u n? seems to i ing |y limit nwcuhnrty ris ri ^Hitegory nind the kir>ds ^f w«un I rir>d sonr"il pMCtirps H ?Fi^rds men. Hisiorian "jeorge Chauncev has rnade ite*"dent thai within the present hetero/h^rno bin^r^m 1 hat <j?vern? men s live? in^^nierTi pciriry sw jety- male sexuality seemj to be^lk^v^ed less msbilrty 1 han n?t se«u?lrty swty or seventy rears prcr. Tet. de^prte rtscircumscnpicn ihe not Kin of maK u hnrty still pl?v? a prominent. iF noi central, rofem both g?vand men^hres. I will discuss notions of mniKuhnrty as performance ar>d social praxis. My rese?re h will f&rus on what contem pcrary max u hnrty men ns For marninnlned men and how 1 hey retrte-to and interact wrth rnwcuhne templates sei t^Forethem. Iwillr^rticul?rh/rocuson1heroleth^1hemaren^s^ulinebodvplaysinthelivesofmar^ir^l Izedmen. What effect does the erer Increasing disguise on th^ shrinking hmds of rnnsculmrty have on queer masculine bcdrerf At one crttrcal theorist hw pos1 u lated |l| n their pathetrally rnmute attention to the styles oF a Fewer from which they have been r^rmanenHv ewduderL 1 he oppressed perForrn nothirrrj more subversive tha n 1 heir ci\*n subm"^SKin to being brainwashed saFely sequesiered ?nfl if necessary readied for annihilate." Is 1 h »s mdf^ thp c uHural pos'rtrsn of marginalize men? While conceding 1 hat this rrnque may be partly true, this r>nper argues 1 hat the dominant culture's representations of marginalized men-and the ways in v*h k h 1 hose who are marginnhzed re present and re*^te to cultural dePnUcns oF rnas^uhmty-firsi ar>d Foremost lor, to avoid the drhed ^pressVin, prlmarlhy'j refleel on th^d^mm^nuuhure rtselF. |