男性特权再审视:女性主导职业中的男性如何察觉并主动重构特权

Male privilege revisited: How men in female‐dominated occupations notice and actively reframe privilege

Gender, Work and Organization · 2021
被引 37
ABS 3

中文导读

研究女性主导职业中的男性如何察觉自身特权,并通过话语策略将其重构为个人成就或自然优势,从而沉默特权,挑战了特权不可见的传统观点。

Abstract

Abstract Our article aims at refocusing the debate in privilege studies from tackling the invisibility to challenging justifications of gender privilege. Focusing on instances in which men acknowledge that they receive preferential treatment, this study sheds light on how privilege is perceived and talked about in interviews with men in female‐dominated occupations. In contrast to existing literature on the invisibility of privilege to the privileged, our analysis shows that the privileging of men is indeed known to them. However, our interviewees then employ specific discursive strategies to actively reframe and thereby silence privilege. They either justify privilege as an individual achievement or as a natural advantage of male bodies. In our discussion, we show how these discursive reframings build on existing discourses on gendered bodies and neoliberal subjectivity. Based on our key argument that gendered privilege is not invisible, but it is acknowledged and then actively reframed and thereby silenced, we argue for expanding the focus of privilege studies: Instead of primarily investing in making privilege visible to those who have it, we need to challenge the discourses that allow for reframing and silencing it.

性别研究社会学社会心理学职业研究特权研究