Improbable Research -
Man Caves.
Are they retrograde expressions of masculine ethos, or therapeutic,
integrative spaces? Either way, perhaps they haven’t received the
academic attention they deserve? Until now. The
Journal of Consumer Culture presents work by
Professor Risto Moisio (California State University, Long Beach, USA) and
Professor Mariam Beruchashvili (California State University, Northridge, USA) who have authored one of the only papers to have formally investigated
Mancaves and masculinity.
“
[…] our study suggests that man caves play a pivotal yet a more complex
role in men’s identity work at home than previously thought. Man caves
are not just the retrograde expressions of masculine ethos premised on
escaping the influence of the female and feminine domesticity. Rather,
man caves emerge as therapeutic, integrative spaces. They operate as
venues for weaving together the multiple aspects of men’s identities at
times overwhelmed by professional and familial obligations. Man caves
afford men a place for reinventing themselves as more fully functioning
males integrated within the home, family, and the fraternity of other
men.”
Also see: Bunkerology and
The Testicular Fortitude of Urbexers
[Picture courtesy theogeo @ Wikipedia]
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