In the article Yes, I’ve Folded Up My Masculine Mystique, Honey, author Stephanie Coontz speaks about the issue of masculine mystique in the present-day. Coontz backs her analysis and statements with several sources from sociologists to authors of several books. By using these sources, Coontz finds the history of extreme traditional gender roles and how they affect society in the present. By showing how these gender roles have affected society and how they continue to affect individuals, readers of this article are able to understand the effects of extreme pressure. By connecting past issues to present-day issues, Coontz demonstrates how traditional gender roles affected many individuals in the past and still affect individuals today.
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When Coontz starts speaking about the masculine mystique, she mentions a sociologist named R.W. Connell, an author named Sheryl Sandberg, sociologists named Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann, and a British researcher named Debbie Epstein. Each of these sources speak about and explain the current issues with gender roles and how masculinity is affected in current society. Near the end of her article, Coontz uses several statistics, researchers, and her own knowledge of history to a man’s “role” can be affected in current society.
In the beginning of her article, Coontz starts by speaking about the history of gender role issues by mentioning the author Friedan and her book. During the 1950s and 60s, women became desperately distraught about their lives. Friedan believed that this “housewife’s fatigue” came from the exhausting pressures of conforming to the norms and ideals of femininity. Because conforming to this ideal image offered “short-term and superficial privileges at a high cost”, women’s health and well being was at stake in their daily lives. Although these issues occurred in the past, Friedan encouraged and urged women develop their own identities based on what they were interested and …show more content…
In Coontz’s article, she mentions the past of feminine mystique before speaking about masculine mystique. By starting with the past, Coontz is able to show the similarities of these issues and explain how both extreme traditional gender roles hinder personal fulfillment and an individual’s society. At the end of the article, Coontz states, “As women did in the 1960s, men today are finding traditional gender roles and values are becoming obstacles to their personal success and that they need to forge a new set of self-images and skills”. Because both issues involve extreme traditional gender roles and pressure individuals to conform to them, Coontz understands that both issues are similar and still effect individuals today. Because some traditional gender roles have continued to pressure individuals, the history of gender roles is still relevant to society today. Instead of maintaining these extreme traditional gender roles, most of society is beginning to understand that gender is not just black and white.
By allowing the effects of extreme traditional gender roles in society to be seen, Coontz lets readers understand that this is a severe problem in the present-day. Although Coontz focuses on issues from the past in her article, she has connected those issues with current-day ones. By connects these issues, Coontz shows readers that extreme traditional gender roles have continues to be a problem throughout
Throughout …show more content…
When Coontz starts speaking about the masculine mystique, she mentions a sociologist named R.W. Connell, an author named Sheryl Sandberg, sociologists named Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann, and a British researcher named Debbie Epstein. Each of these sources speak about and explain the current issues with gender roles and how masculinity is affected in current society. Near the end of her article, Coontz uses several statistics, researchers, and her own knowledge of history to a man’s “role” can be affected in current society.
In the beginning of her article, Coontz starts by speaking about the history of gender role issues by mentioning the author Friedan and her book. During the 1950s and 60s, women became desperately distraught about their lives. Friedan believed that this “housewife’s fatigue” came from the exhausting pressures of conforming to the norms and ideals of femininity. Because conforming to this ideal image offered “short-term and superficial privileges at a high cost”, women’s health and well being was at stake in their daily lives. Although these issues occurred in the past, Friedan encouraged and urged women develop their own identities based on what they were interested and …show more content…
In Coontz’s article, she mentions the past of feminine mystique before speaking about masculine mystique. By starting with the past, Coontz is able to show the similarities of these issues and explain how both extreme traditional gender roles hinder personal fulfillment and an individual’s society. At the end of the article, Coontz states, “As women did in the 1960s, men today are finding traditional gender roles and values are becoming obstacles to their personal success and that they need to forge a new set of self-images and skills”. Because both issues involve extreme traditional gender roles and pressure individuals to conform to them, Coontz understands that both issues are similar and still effect individuals today. Because some traditional gender roles have continued to pressure individuals, the history of gender roles is still relevant to society today. Instead of maintaining these extreme traditional gender roles, most of society is beginning to understand that gender is not just black and white.
By allowing the effects of extreme traditional gender roles in society to be seen, Coontz lets readers understand that this is a severe problem in the present-day. Although Coontz focuses on issues from the past in her article, she has connected those issues with current-day ones. By connects these issues, Coontz shows readers that extreme traditional gender roles have continues to be a problem throughout