Abstract:
This dissertation presents the transformations which provided the rise of the study
field of manliness, result of transformations which happened in society and academy
and were started by the feminist movement. With the access of women to different
spheres of society, the masculine superiority was affected, generating the crisis of
model of traditional manliness. The fissures in traditional manliness had evidenced
the existence of alternative manliness. Glances on manliness since an
interdisciplinary perspective allow us to identify three models of interpretation of
manliness. They are models built since the analysis perspective and not since the
specific content of researches. We also identified three appealing dimensions in the
readings. Although they are complementally, they were separated in order to provide
a more detailed vision on each dimension. The studies about manliness center its
attention in sexual signs of masculine identity, relating the other dimensions to the
phallus centrism and the libido dominandi. Finally, it systematizes the way as
theology has been working with manliness, in order to identify which is the role that
the experience occupies in theological studies.
