A demaszkulinizáció folyamata - Adalékok az európai dzsender rend hosszú távú átalakulásának vizsgálatához
The Demasculinizing Process. Thoughts about the Long Term Transformation of the European Gender Order

Summary/Abstract: The author of this essay argues that male domination does not have universal validity; its characteristics have fundamentally changed from the Middle Ages onwards. These transformations, during which social relations have gradually lost their masculine, masculinist and patriarchal character, are defined as the Western demasculinizing process. The church, the state, the family, and the school are identified as the main structuring institutions of this process. Based on a comparison of Hungarian and European data on gender relations between 1960 and 2015, the article states that both Hungarian and European trends are moving in the same direction: towards gender equality. By extrapolating these data to the next decades, it is argued that, in spite of certain waves of re-masculinization, the Western gender order will become more balanced and will lose its former structural weight.

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