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The gender role stereotype of the traditional masculine man is often criticized; The idea is that a man is no less a man if he does not possess a certain list of attributes,[1][2] that masculinity is either a bankrupt concept, or that it is a socially-constructed concept (Ortner & Whitehead 1981) which should be significantly broadened.[3][4] The theory that hegemonic masculinity has changed over time and the description of a variety of present day masculine forms explicitly supports the idea that there are multiple ways to be masculine or that "masculinities" exist. Prior theories and measures had described a single stereotypical masculine form, often specifying what masculinity was.[5]
Bibliography
editOrtner, S. and Whitehead, H. 1981, Introduction: Accounting for Sexual Meanings. In Ortner and Whitehead (Eds.): Sexual Meanings. (pp. 1-27).