The masculinity in the process from child to adult as permanent liminal experience
Abstract
Liminal experiences take place during significant transition, passage and disruption situations in which what was previously taken for granted enters into a stage of suspension. In this work, we have reanalysed and rearticulated the experience of nineteen men during their adolescence stage (Uribe, 2018). We focused on socio-psycho-organic-physical expressions and markers that allude to adolescence and masculinity phenomenon as liminal experiences. From the analysis, we concluded that masculinity is developed as a liminal experience, which initiates, influences and disseminates its patriarchal mandates in adolescence stage, and subverts the transition process from childhood to adulthood. Further, masculinity makes possible the emergence of a permanent liminal process, which not only transcends the passage from being a child to be an adult, but also from being a boy to be a man. This opens an eternal experience in which you are simultaneously a man and a no-man, having to constantly test your virility.
Keywords
Liminality, Gender, Adolescence, VirilityReferences
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