Masculinism, Resistance, and Recognition in Vietnam
NORMA International Journal for Masculinity Studies ISSN: 1890-2138 (Print) 1890-2146 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rnor20 Recognising shadows: masculinism, resistance, and recognition in Vietnam Paul Horton To cite this article: Paul Horton (2019): Recognising shadows: masculinism, resistance, and recognition in Vietnam, NORMA, DOI: 10.1080/18902138.2019.1565166 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2019.1565166 © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Published online: 11 Jan 2019. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 110 View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rnor20 NORMA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR MASCULINITY STUDIES https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2019.1565166 Recognising shadows: masculinism, resistance, and recognition in Vietnam Paul Horton Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Pride parades, LGBT rights demonstrations, and revisions to the Received 9 July 2017 Marriage and Family Law highlight the extent to which norms and Accepted 12 November 2018 values related to gender, sexuality, marriage, and the family have KEYWORDS recently been challenged in Vietnam. They also illuminate the Vietnam; LGBT; masculinism; gendered power relations being played out in the socio-cultural recognition; power; context of Vietnam, and thus open up for a more in-depth resistance consideration of the ways in which LGBT people have experienced and resisted these relations in everyday life. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Vietnam’s two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, in 2012, this article discusses the relations between these power relations, the dominant Vietnamese discourse of masculinity, or masculinism, and the politics of recognition.
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