ANTH 331 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Polarization, Stoicism
8 Nov 2016
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Gender: socially and culturally produced ideas about differences associated with being a male or female. Gender polarization: masculine vs. feminine are polar opposites, have no overlap. What society thinks of gender system. (north america) Self-determined motivation : how you feel inside about yourself, allows to conform. Pressured motivation : feel pressured by society to conform to the dominant forms. Gender violations: people who violate gender norms are subject to discrimination. 1: societal devaluation: society makes you feel bad about yourself. Hegemonic masculinity: states that there are several forms in which masculinity exists, but only one form is the dominant form, and idealized in society: the traditional form = dominant form. Hierarchy of different forms of masculinity: dominant form becomes ideal image and all others that don"t fall into ideal image are judged. It is dominant to: marginalized masculinities (don"t t in, femininities. Naive,weak, etc: repudiation of the feminine : anything considered feminine.
