Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings.
This study explores the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. It attempts to answer these overarching questions: i) How does one olfactively “qualify” as a “masculine” being? ii) As a scented body, how does one embody being “masculine” in specific fields and iii) how do such olfactively “mascu...
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| author | Tan, Jacqueline Wei Hui. |
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| description | This study explores the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. It attempts to answer these overarching questions: i) How does one olfactively “qualify” as a “masculine” being? ii) As a scented body, how does one embody being “masculine” in specific fields and iii) how do such olfactively “masculine” practices sustain the larger gender order? By arguing that scenting is a process of performativity that constitutes an “ideal” being within existing discourse surrounding masculinity, this study illustrates how scenting practices and olfactive masculinities are constructed and reconstructed in field-specific power and gender relations so much so that the “masculine” body is lived and experienced in specific contexts. As a scented body, the “masculine” body can therefore have no ontological status apart from the acts of scenting that constitute its reality within field-specific valuations and evaluations of olfactive masculinity. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/516622019-12-10T14:46:20Z Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. Tan, Jacqueline Wei Hui. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Xiao Hong DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology This study explores the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. It attempts to answer these overarching questions: i) How does one olfactively “qualify” as a “masculine” being? ii) As a scented body, how does one embody being “masculine” in specific fields and iii) how do such olfactively “masculine” practices sustain the larger gender order? By arguing that scenting is a process of performativity that constitutes an “ideal” being within existing discourse surrounding masculinity, this study illustrates how scenting practices and olfactive masculinities are constructed and reconstructed in field-specific power and gender relations so much so that the “masculine” body is lived and experienced in specific contexts. As a scented body, the “masculine” body can therefore have no ontological status apart from the acts of scenting that constitute its reality within field-specific valuations and evaluations of olfactive masculinity. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-08T03:55:49Z 2013-04-08T03:55:49Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51662 en Nanyang Technological University 37 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology Tan, Jacqueline Wei Hui. Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. |
| title | Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. |
| title_full | Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. |
| title_short | Smells make the man : a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings. |
| title_sort | smells make the man a study on the olfactive constitution of masculine beings |
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