Disciplining Protest Masculinity

Abstract

Protest masculinity is a gendered identity oriented toward a protest of the relations of production and the ideal type of hegemonic masculinity. To this point, protest masculinity has been conceived as a destructive, chaotic, and alienating sort of masculinity. This interpretation is incomplete, for it does not include efforts on the part of men to use protest masculinity for its integrative potential. This study is the product of ethnographic inquiry and documents skilled working-class men using methods of social control to discipline protest masculinity and orient it into a less destructive and more harmonious state. At the end of the analysis, I propose a grounded nomenclature to manage the theoretical concepts. “Anomic protest masculinity” is the unguided and destructive sort. “Disciplined protest masculinity” is the product of intensive social control and functions to increase solidarity among working-class men.

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