Hegemonic masculinities. An autoethnographic view of power, domination, virility and violence among men.

Abstract

The social relationships between people are subject to the historical and cultural conditions of societies because they are the ones that provide the identity principles that indicate the ways of being in the world. Social positions have been defined by the possession of power, generating dynamics of domination and subordination between people, specifically, processes of submission exercised by men towards women have been observed. The oppression is due to the learning of masculinities and femininities that indicate the personal traits of males and females, indicating
their place in the social body. It is precisely the theme of masculinities that is of interest in this article because it helps in understanding the dynamics of power exercised between men towards other men and women in the different stages of life of individuals. In other words, it allows us to understand the processes of domination
and violence exerted by certain masculine identities in societies. Therefore, the approach to masculinities was possible through the use of autoethnography as a methodological tool aimed at exploring my personal history, which brought me closer to reflecting on experiences I had with people who consciously or unconsciously had sexist behavior. The reflections were accompanied by bibliographic sources that gave a theoretical support to the exposed ideas and to the narrative thread developed in the article. It concludes by pointing out the need to configure new forms of masculinity away from traditional stereotypes that harm people and their forms of social interaction.