Redefining hegemonic masculinity

One needs to rethink the term hegemonic {ruling or dominant in a political or social context.} masculinity to produce a more nuanced understanding of privileged legitimating conceptions of manhood, and of relations between different masculinities in the global/nation

Discussions of masculinity regularly characterize it as in a state of crisis, pointing to men hamstrung between ideologically opposed models of manhood, one endorsing commitment to community and family, the other advocating freedom from them. 

Yet, the metaphor of crisis, with its suggestion of irresolution and immobility, fails to account for the competence of men who display behavior from both models. 

Such men realize their goals precisely because they combine behaviors from both models as their strategies for success. thus redefining masculinity as they transgress the limitations of the two models to create a new ideal of masculinity that incorporates all manner of behaviors, provided that they lead to male fulfillment.