homosocial

The show explores the late-19th century artist’s homosocial themes, distinctive for Impressionism, whose common human subjects were typically women and girls.

Certainly, however, Caillebotte was homosocial.

Among the many benefits of feminist scholarship and its focus on the complex nature of identity has been the subsequent study of homosocial experience.

More subtle and intriguing are Nichols’s efforts to capture the power of Lyon’s photos which — with their dynamic mixture of pictorial beauty and thematic grit, hyper-masculinity and homosocial intimacy — tell a specific 20th-century American story of being and belonging.

But everyone else is content to lounge in the cognitive dissonance of the blurry boundaries of their homosocial intimacy rituals.