WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Raewyn Connell, Nonconformist, Hegemonic Masculinity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Katherine Bausch

Document Summary

To be masculine, you must reject femininity. Hegemonic masculinity is not a xed type, always and everywhere the same - r. w. Changes with time and place - therefore we can change it now. Connell: if there us a most powerful kind of masculinity, there must be masculinities that are subordinate. Subordinate masculinities are versions of masculinity that are oppressed and suppressed. Connell"s examples of those two are not allowed to t the ideal. Toxic masculinity - hegemonic - currently in na the most prized form of masculinity leads to bad things. Violence in the media (video games, movies) teaches young buys what it means to be masculine. Men learn the tough guise - put off a tough front. Being a man is about being aggressive, in control etc. American ideal - portrayed in lms - linking man with threatening with violence. Masculinity box - stereotypes - step outside the box will be seen as feminine.