Япония: цивилизация, культура, язык 2022
«ISSUES OF JAPANOLOGY, vol. 9» St-Petersburg State Univ 2022 529 these types of behavior as “hegemonic masculinity” (the type of masculinity that “structures and legitimates gender relations hierarchically between men and women”) and “emphasized femininity” (“a form of femininity that is practiced in a complementary, compliant, and accommodating subordinate relationship with hegemonic masculinity”). The present study did not aim to inquire into how (or how much) these concepts apply to contemporary Japanese society, but to prove that they are applied to the point of exaggeration in two separate worlds. What is presented on the stage of the matsuri or that of the kagai 18 are idealized models of what is assumed to be traditional behavior, which differ from patterns that can be observed in daily life. Two complementary genders formally exclude each other from their performed lives, creating and maintaining a convention where the roles played have been chosen and assumed by the individuals. R.W.Connell and James W. Messerschmidt. 2005. “Hegemonic Masculinity. Re-thinking the Concept” in Gender and Society , Vol. 19, No. 6 (Dec., 2005), pp. 829-859 18 花街 , literally “flower district,” a phrase designating the geisha quarters in Kyoto
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