Masculine Discourses as Control and Tension Devices in Women’s Leadership and Empowering Configuration
The present contribution deals with the meaning of the feminine leadership from a masculine perspective. By using a qualitative approach, open interviews were developed to understand the meaning that men assign to the feminine leadership. The speeches were analyzed on the basis of the Strauss/Cor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2007-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/1380 |
| Summary: | The present contribution deals with the meaning of the feminine leadership from a
masculine perspective. By using a qualitative approach, open interviews were developed to
understand the meaning that men assign to the feminine leadership. The speeches were analyzed
on the basis of the Strauss/Corbin-theory (2003). The results show that men agree with the changes
experienced by the gender roles. In a specific way, men agree that women need to have more
societal-economic opportunities, which are necessary for more equitable relationship inside the
family. However, within this positive framework emerging tensions configure a dissatisfaction of
the masculinity that, in turn, impact the intimate sphere questioning the present day inter-gender
relationship. Finally, there is a men’s group with more progressive speeches which venture towards
a positive evaluation of the women’s capacities and their assumed public space-roles. However
this positive evaluation is vigilant, ambivalent, and influenced by a perception of confidence/
uncertainty, efficiency/inefficiency of the effective societal contribution that women are able to
reach. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |