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Off the leash and out of control : masculinities and embodiment in eastern European stag tourism

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Thurnell-Read, Thomas (2011) Off the leash and out of control : masculinities and embodiment in eastern European stag tourism. Sociology, Vol.45 (No.6). pp. 977-991. doi:10.1177/0038038511416149

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Abstract

Entrenched conceptions of masculinity have constructed the male body as bounded and controlled. This article discusses the centrality of a particular construction of the male body to the phenomenon of British premarital stag party tourism to Eastern European cities. Drawing on data from participant-observation in Kraków, Poland, it is shown that the tour participants enact an embodied masculinity which is unruly and unrestrained. The stag tour experience is embodied through the use of clothing and incidences of nudity, public urination and vomiting, and the detrimental physical effects of heavy alcohol consumption. This embodiment is self-destructive and frequently self-parodic. The failures of participants to sustain a controlled and contained body are celebrated as part of the enactment of a boisterous masculinity. This represents a release from normative pressures concerning the male body but, with transgression being only temporary, also acts to support the ritualistic reinscription of a wider hegemonic masculinity.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions: Other > Institute of Advanced Study
Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Journal or Publication Title: Sociology
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0038-0385
Official Date: December 2011
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DateEvent
December 2011Published
Volume: Vol.45
Number: No.6
Number of Pages: 15
Page Range: pp. 977-991
DOI: 10.1177/0038038511416149
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council

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