ABSTRACT
This chapter will begin to elaborate the possibilities for a challenge to hegemonic masculinity and its dominative masculine hegemony by focusing on the development of a project for aspirational hegemony in gender. Analysis of the postmarxist paradigm developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe will be the point of departure. Specifically, this analysis will focus on two key concepts within this socio-political paradigm: antagonism and equivalence. Further, through a synthesis of these prima facie contradictory positions, it will be shown that a new basis for organic protest is possible.
