Un baile de máscaras

What is masculinity? From Trump's outbursts on Twitter to the gun violence that claims the lives of thousands of people, to the numbers of suicides among men and the "incel" that we find on Reddit and 4chan, the masculinity that dominates the world is perceived as "toxic", "fragile" and "in crisis". In A Masquerade Ball, JJ Bola describes masculinity as a representation that men perform based on their social environment. Using examples from non-Western cultural traditions, from music and sport, he draws our attention to traditional accounts of masculinity while destroying some popular myths along the way. He delves into how men in the LGBTQ+ community, men of color, and refugee men experience masculinity in diverse ways, demonstrating its fluid nature, and how it is reinforced and weakened by different political contexts, such as patriarchy. or the extreme right, and how those who participate in them perceive it differently. Masculinity resides at the heart of love and sex, the political arena, competitive sports, gang culture and mental health issues, and A Masquerade Ball urges us to urgently unravel and redefine it. .