“Gender troubled” – from the production and reproduction of masculinity to the forms of overcrossing gender: Masculinity, sexuality and procreation. Reproductive rights and health as not only women’s issue

• Authors: Dzwonkowska-Godula, Krystyna

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to investigate men’s reproductive rights and reproductive health. I want to answer questions concerning men’s freedom and autonomy in decisions about their own sexuality and fertility and about restrictions imposed on them by the society through informal and formal social norms. The research refers to such fields of reproductive rights as sex education, fertility and reproductive health control and are based on the analysis of secondary data (publications, law regulations, results of social research, media coverage, websites) related to male sexuality and procreation. In the first part of the paper the model of hegemonic masculinity is presented, with particular emphasis on the elements relating to sexuality and procreation. The second part of the article refers to the impact of this model on the implementation of reproductive rights of Polish men in three mentioned above areas of reproductive rights. The analysis of the results of the previous research and literature on the subject resulted in formulating a hypothesis that male reproductive rights are limited not by formal, legal norms (as is the case of women, for example access to contraception or abortion), but by cultural norms – patriarchal, hegemonic concept of masculinity and male sexuality.

Keywords

EN

masculinity; hegemonic masculinity; male sexuality; reproductive health; reproductive rights; sexual education

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 18(2)
• Pages: 144-167

Dates

published

2017-10-24

Contributors

author

Dzwonkowska-Godula, Krystyna