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Aggressive And Loving Men: Gender Hegemony in Christian Hardcore Punk

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This research uses Christian Hardcore punk to show how evangelical Christian men respond to
changes in gender relations that threaten hegemonic masculinity through a music subculture.
Drawing on interviews and participant observations of live music shows, I find that Christian
Hardcore ministry involves a hybrid mix of aggressive and loving performances of manhood.
Christian Hardcore punk men fortify the idea that men and women are essentially opposites
through discourse and the segregation of music spaces, even as they deviate from dominant ideas
of what makes a man in their strategy of openly expressing the “loving” of secular men. The
mechanism for this is the interactions in concert spaces. These findings offer a conceptual move
away from studying “godly” masculinity as intrinsically distinct from secular masculinity and
illustrate how religious masculinities can be both hegemonic and “soft.”

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Series Title

Gender & Society

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Publisher

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications., 2017

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

08912432

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Edition

Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2017; pp. 223–244

Subject(s)

Hegemonic masculinity
hybrid masculinities
evangelicalism

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