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Constructing Masculinities and Experiencing Loss

What the Writings of Two Chinese Americans Tell

City University of New York

Chinese American men live in partially hostile environments where they confront discrimination and stereotypes that can undermine their sense of manhood. Through a critical analysis of autobiographies, this study explores how two Chinese American men, Yi-Fu Tuan and Ben Fong-Torres, poignantly construct viable masculinities. In the face of discrimination, they experience conflicting selves as they negotiate between their gender, race, class, and cultural and sexual identities: a process that involved search for empowerment, splitting of selves, and painful loss. Life studies as a method of doing masculinity research reveals the complexities of men's experiences and the need to examine how gender, race, class, culture, and sexuality together both limit and allow possibilities for being men.

Key Words: masculinities • discrimination • Chinese American • identities • life studies

Men and Masculinities, Vol. 8, No. 3, 321-330 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X05282082


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