COMS 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hegemonic Masculinity, Judith Butler, Media Culture
15 Jan 2019
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*mid-term: 1st half, multiple choice, second half, short answer. *sports reading on this week will be on the midterm. The shift or the white norm domination to minorities taking over. Men spending more time at work and boys being educated and raised by children. Ymca and other organizations where boys are socialized into proper masculinity. 1960s/70s feminism and other challenges to white male patriarchy. Crisis of masculinity today: white nationalism, precarious. Women and minorities are still fighting for equality. Hegemonic masculinity compensate for perceived loss of power. How do you convince a stubborn demographic to become better consumers. Create body image anxieties through health and fitness culture and then offer to fix them. Cultural consumption: the very material out of which we construct our identities. Now men can participate in perpetual self improvement, but it doesn"t solve the crisis because they"ll never be perfect. Sexuality: the formulation of oneself as an ethical subject. The arts of existence/techniques of the self.
