Hegemonic masculinity

male sex role theory popularized by Robert Brannon created a great foundation for gender studies, specifically studies concerning masculinity. The following essay will uncover his research design and analysis, his key contributions to the theory, and some strengths and weaknesses of his theory. Ultimately, the central premise is to show how his conception of masculinity and the sex role, in particular, has many faults and lacks evidentiary basis, which conclusively leads to its demise. First…

Shifting Constructions of Masculinity in Discourse” for the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Scott Fabius Kiesling provides an articulate analysis of the role speech plays in the creation hegemonic masculine identities. While Kiesling’s 2001 study focused on a unique situation — an American fraternity in a middle to upper class university — its findings can be observed in modern everyday life and can be easily applied to current conversations pertaining to masculinity, such as the discussion…

represents Hemingway’s life and experiences. Ernest Hemingway was considered the masculine man, after going through the war. Hemingway projects himself through Jake Barnes, his protagonist, of what masculinity is. And Harvey Mansfield’s Manliness states that the traditional core features of masculinity…

militarism in the construction of masculinity requires men to overplay their virility, where hegemonic masculinity expects men to act in an aggressive manner and normalizes their violent mindset, “Link between weapons, masculinities and violence…,” (Theidon, 2009, pg. 420). Men’s value is measured by their physical strength where failing to so result with them being label as a fag or wimp to immaculate them where, “Words are also used to impugn someone’s masculinity and, in the process, to…

are supposed to go about their daily lives. Masculinity is an institutionally and socially prescribed role; however, males play an active part in defining and altering masculinity. For this reason, what is considered masculine varies geographically, culturally, as well as over time. Time and again, the majority of males tend to use language, work, sports, crime, sex, etc. to construct and reconstruct gender and masculinity. The idealized form of masculinity in a given place, time, and culture…

masculine, or at least in terms of societies definition of masculinity. In our culture, gender and sex are understood as different, but co-existent and complimentary. Gender and sex together are used to create ones gender ideology; their personal understanding of gender. Just as the female/feminine has been socially constructed and implemented through norms attitudes and beliefs, so have the ideas or expectations of the male, masculinity. Within our culture and society, we have created norms and…

“The Ghost," the male hero possesses mainly feminine qualities and fulfills both male and female gender roles. This complex protagonist suggests Max Brand is exploring a new idea of what makes a man. In doing so Brand discourages the codes of hegemonic masculinity, and uses positive feminine qualities in order to create a new breed of male hero, who displays feminine qualities, and uses them to dominate the traditional male cowboy. Within the text, there are clear distinctions between what’s…

For this paper I am going to be discussing gender in the institution of films. Specifically I am going to be discussing masculinity and femininity in coming of age films. I am going to discuss how gender is represented in coming of age films and what it means to “come of age “ in regards to both masculinity and femininity. Coming of age movies set an expectation for teens and young adults it lays out what they should fear and what they should thrive to be in order to transition to adulthood…

athletic men and athletic women. Instead, these images are: men are strong, powerful, and athletic and women are soft and beautiful. I will never apologize for thinking that that is simply too narrow of a box to try and shove a person into. There are masculinities and femininities, people become their gender through so many means and it’s not natural for a woman to only want to be a woman sexually. People are unique and as such, they fit into many different roles. That is what is natural, people…

Wilcox (2007) explains, “Gender symbolism describes the way in which masculine/feminine are assigned to various dichotomies that organize Western thought” where “both men and women tend to place a higher value on the term which is associated with masculinity”. This vertical power relation, create a social hierarchy based on masculine…