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The Village Voice: Masculine Identity Construction Within An Interpretive Community, Deirdre Duffy
The Village Voice: Masculine Identity Construction Within An Interpretive Community, Deirdre Duffy
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This paper looks at how young Irish men construct their masculine self/identity/body keeping in mind the mediated world within which they find themselves, and considering their own more immediate social surroundings and influences, that is to say, their interpretive community. The research paper combines Foucault’s later writings on technologies of the self with literary theory, using critics such as Stanley Fish (1980) and his work on ‘Interpretive Communities’ to inform the study.