Abstract

GANDOLFI, Fernanda. The subaltern epic of masculinity. The corporal performance of militant male workers. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2022, vol.7, n.1, pp.102-126.  Epub June 01, 2022. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v7i1.1527.

This work focuses on the masculine performances of male workers, workers in the construction industry, and union activists. From an analysis of their corporalities, it can be seen that these men update masculine ways of being and being-in-the-world, based on a close relationship with their class experiences. Roughness, brutality, resistance and bodily endurance are experiences that are part of their work and the demands placed on them. These characteristics are in turn covered in their performance of trade union and worker struggle, marked by a heroism, which although it is known to be subaltern, is also constituted by gender prestige. I also focus on how the ethnographic experience, in the light of a feminist anthropology, allowed me to elaborate the analysis of these performances.

Keywords : masculinity; working class; performance; feminist anthropology.

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