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Gender & Society, Vol. 17, No. 3, 423-444 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243203017003008

Soft-Boiled Masculinity

Renegotiating Gender and Racial Ideologies in the Promise Keepers Movement

Melanie Heath

University of Southern California

This article examines the tensions in the identities of men who belong to the Promise Keepers (PK) movement by uncovering the social conditions that lead men to rethink gender and racial ideologies. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews, the author draws on gender and social movement scholarship to reveal how contradictory gender and racial ideologies shape PKs' identities. Furthermore, the PKs' impact on gender and race relations is also contradictory. PK fosters men's growth on an interactional level, allowing men to embrace a more expressive and caring masculinity that includes cross-racial bonding. Simultaneously, however, PK ignores, and indirectly reinforces, the structural conditions that underpin gender and racial privilege among white men.

Key Words: masculinity • gender and race relations • social movements • religious movements • ideologies


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