Hegemonic masculinity

Sociology tutorial assignment 1 What is the relationship between femininities and masculinities? What is considered as masculine or feminine is not only restricted to being male or female, although it does play a part in reinforcing the gender ideas that have emerged (Schippers, 2007). “Masculinity” (Schippers, 2007) and “femininity” (Schippers, 2007) can be considered as complex terms, which have various roles and beliefs attached to them and both can be said to influence or have been…

key points that correlate with hegemony is patriarchy, genders, masculinity, and power. Hegemony allows people to see and think the way they do, and is in everyday life. It controls as if it is innate or natural. Hegemony supports and upholds the power and privilege of the white, upper class, heterosexual men. With that being said, this essay will examine how race, disability, class, and gender have been used to uphold the hegemonic privilege. Every form of oppression is rooted in social…

feel things.” (Smith, 0:05). Toxic masculinity exists almost everywhere, in western society, as well as Nagpal 3 in the society of Afghanistan, where the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns is set. “He was a man. All those years without a woman. Could she fault him for the way God had created him?” (Hosseini, 82). Here one can see what the fundamental problem with the thinking of Mariam (and like her, a lot of other people) is: she dismisses the toxic, hegemonic masculinity of Rasheed as the default…

choose their favourite out of. Though each personality is somewhat different, all of the members still must maintain the masculine or hegemonic ideal. As identified by Raewyn Connell in The Social Organization of Masculinity, hegemony “refers to the cultural dynamic by which a group claims and sustains a leading position in social life”, and hegemonic masculinity is “the configuration of gender practice which embodies the currently accepted answer to the problem of the legitimacy of patriarchy…

Analyzing Masculinities through the Work of 21 Jump Street (2012) 21 Jump Street is a great example of how masculinities can be expressed in multiple ways. A typical male is supposed to be perceived by society as being tough, dominant, hard-working, emotionless, loyal, etc. (http://www.psychologyofmen.org/male-gender-role/). However, throughout this movie, the viewers witness many males who act extremely different from one another, but they are still considered to be from the masculine gender.…

Book Review Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities. By Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 272 pp., $29.95 (paper) Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha’s Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities finds itself entering in the midst of some very busy noisy conversations regarding Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North)…

Monsters Next Door, wherein which she develops the notion of multiple masculinities and the hierarchy of power that exists within them. This essay will analyse what features of the human body are rendered invisible or significant, as argued by both authors, and where their depictions of masculinity conflict…

channel conflicts with the idea of the hegemonic male—a “dominant construct of masculinity identity characterized by a rugged self-sufficiency and a disinterest in style and fashion” (Harrison, 2012). Although alpha m. presents a masculine approach to male aesthetics, the very fact that he and his viewers are interested in their appearance derives a negative response. Alpha m.’s approach is to dissociate himself from anything feminine and call attention to masculinity as often as possible.…

Hegemonic Imprisonment Short stories invite the “audience to follow a certain trajectory of desire” (Phelan). These desires prey on the very values of the audience to unconsciously lead them to question a moral or ethical dilemma. It accomplishes this by enhancing the stories thematic component. This component involves representing the characters as being part of a larger concept or even philosophy. Gender normative behaviors are described as behaviors that are directly imposed by a…

The word gender is a social construction used to allocate a group of acceptable actions to both sexes. Some of the most convincing labels are associated to sports (Coackley, 1998). There is also a belief that there are certain sports that are suitable and unsuitable for females and males. Studies have discovered that sports like gymnastics and dance that highlight beauty and elegance are frequently considered “feminine” while sports like football and hockey that contain components of violence…