The Library
A wen-wu approach to male teenage Chinese sports fans’ heteronormative interpretation of masculinity
Tools
Peng, Yuzhu (Altman), Chen, T. Z. and Chen, S. (2023) A wen-wu approach to male teenage Chinese sports fans’ heteronormative interpretation of masculinity. Feminist Review, 134 (1). pp. 69-85. doi:10.1177/01417789231155896 ISSN 0141-7789.
|
PDF
peng-et-al-2023-a-wen-wu-approach-to-male-teenage-chinese-sports-fans-heteronormative-interpretation-of-masculinity.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download (159Kb) | Preview |
|
PDF
WRAP-wen-wu-approach-male-teenage-Chinese-sports-fans-heteronormative-interpretation-masculinity-Peng-2023.pdf - Accepted Version Embargoed item. Restricted access to Repository staff only - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (590Kb) |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789231155896
Abstract
This article analyses how performatively heteronormative, male teenage Chinese fans consume sports games through the prism of masculinity, using secondary school students’ engagement with the NBA (National Basketball Association) as a case study. Drawing on focus groups of 23 participants, we discover that male teenage sports fans constantly evoke elite NBA athletes as male ideals to define a desirable, heteronormative wen-wu masculinity specific to the post-reform era. In this process, they often engage in a double-standard practice, manifesting as their appropriation of the CP (coupling) rhetoric to “ship” athletes and their problematisation of heterosexual women and LGBTQ fans’ similar usage of it. This double-standard practice constitutes an attempt to monopolise the interpretation of masculinity both within and outside of the sporting context. It sheds light on the heteronormative male cohort’s rejection of alternative masculinities, underscoring how aspects of gender politics unfolding in wider society are reflected in China’s teenage sports fandom.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Masculinity , Masculinity in sports -- China, Sports spectators -- China, Teenage boys -- Attitudes -- China, Mass media -- Social aspects -- China, Masculinity in mass media | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Feminist Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0141-7789 | ||||||
Official Date: | 11 July 2023 | ||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||
Volume: | 134 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 69-85 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/01417789231155896 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Peng, Yuzhu (Altman), Chen, T. Z. and Chen, S. (2023) A wen-wu approach to male teenage Chinese sports fans’ heteronormative interpretation of masculinity. Feminist Review. Copyright © 2023 by Feminist Review. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. 10.1177/01417789231155896. Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 January 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 January 2023 | ||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year