- 學位論文
可愛「男」，不難？— 台灣男大專院校生的可愛認同與實踐
To Be Manly or Lovely : The Identities and Practices of “Lovely Male” College Students in Taiwan
摘要
「可愛」，作為一種流動而模糊的載體，在當代台灣社會與流行文化問漂浮與纏繞；「男性」，作為一種性別秩序的框架與陽剛特質糾纏，在父權社會中卻未必能夠人人皆享紅利。當兩者交會時，「可愛男性」究竟如何跳脫陽剛特質糾纏，成為一種新樣態氣質的展現，甚而跳脫既有的性別邏輯，進行一場「可愛革命」。 本文透過18位自我認同或他者認同為「可愛男性」的報導人，爬梳其日常生活、個人與社會的互動歷程，進而逐漸堆疊其「可愛男性」的日常實踐，從中理解其「可愛男性」的特殊性與意義，並藉此探勘「可愛」與「男性」間的距離與其「可愛」之「複數性」，進而尋找「可愛男性」在「陽剛特質」與「性別多元」的交融下，如何「認同」與「實踐」，進而成為「可愛資本」。 本研究發現，「可愛男性」的認同植基於與家庭、社會等互動，並透過東亞流行文化進行堆疊與建構，進而繪畫出「可愛男性」的圖像；「可愛男性」的實踐則來自於他者的不斷的對話與調整，甚至是一種日常的「無意識」作為，透過與「主流男性」不同的特殊性與「日常的戰爭」，使「可愛」逐漸成為「男性」特質的新選擇。
並列摘要
“Lovely,” a confluent and vague carrier, levitates and hybridizes between contemporary Taiwanese society and Taiwan Popular Culture. “Male,” a gender frame in the discipline of patriarchy that is entangled with masculinity, does not necessarily enjoy the dividends of patriarchy in terms of gender, though. The purpose of the thesis focuses on how “lovely male,” a mélange of the carrier and gender frame, eschews the entanglement of masculinity and displays a performance of a new temperament, further defying the long-established logic of gender and staging a “lovely revolution.” Through 18 interviewees who are identified by ego or others as “lovely males,” the thesis examines their everyday lives, personal and social interactions, and accrued everyday practices and aims to gain insights into the distinctions and meanings of “lovely male,” measure the distance between “lovely” and “male,” and probe into the plurality of “lovely,” further exploring how “lovely males,” in the background intertwined with muscularity and gender plurality, develop their “identities” and “practices” and accumulate “lovely capital” from gender politics. The thesis finds that the identity of “lovely male,” accumulating and constructed through East Asian Popular Culture, is stated in family and social interactions and thus exhibits the picture of “lovely male”. The practices of “lovely male” derive from the constant dialogue and adjustment with others, even an everyday “state of being unconscious.” Through distinctions from “Androcentrism” and “Everyday War,” “lovely” has been becoming a new alternative to “male” temperament.