De(re)konstrukcja męskości
De(re)constructing Masculinity

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to identify the central tenets of masculinity studies within literary scholarship. An initial condition for male-focussed gender studies is that researchers unanimously call for a deconstruction of patriarchal masculinity, understood as a subject’s strong identity; furthermore it is necessary that “masculinity” be pluralized – a goal expressed by using the plural when referring to such nouns as “man” and “masculinity”. Once the unity of masculinity is deconstructed, it is transposed onto the meta level. This happens through procedures that constitute “masculinity” as a “field” or an “object” of study, providing both a rationale and a separate identity for this academic discipline. By deconstructing the deconstruction they initially intended, researchers perform a “reconstruction” of masculinity. Kłosiński discusses the language of masculinity studies as well as the discipline’s relationship to modernism and postmodernism.

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