An Exploratory Research On The Mutual Construction Of Masculinity And Male Friendship

The contemporary western women’s studies the development speed is very quick, the promotion of gender harmony to promote gender equality is more and more strong, attracted academic attention to gender studies, this also makes the sex in the present academic circles and social visibility in the increasingly obvious, gradually developed into a special subject, the emergence of a group of outstanding gender research scholar, also the research about men and masculinity, In recent years, masculinity research has penetrated into all fields, male friendship gradually into people’s vision, the relationship between masculinity and male friendship is attracted more and more attention.This paper takes the masculinity and male friendship are constructed as the theme, using literature analysis, case interviews and participant observation method to study, selected10working class men and10white-collar men as the research object, at the same time, there are20women as a comparative reference, directly involved in their party activities study. The study confirmed that, as a result of masculinity crisis and male stereotype makes intimate sharing degree of friendship between men than women is much lower; the difference of hegemonic masculinity requirements and social strata has a great influence on the choice of male male meeting place; at some point jokes to construct their masculinity, also with the joke to relieve the contradiction between the real behavior and idea; men to defend their own strong male traits through discussion of feminist criticism, and expressed their desire to talk.