WGST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Femininity, Erving Goffman, Masculinity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2800
• Professor: Megan Rivers- Moore

Document Summary

Ie. what it means to be a man and woman in the australian outback compared to others. The normative constellation of attitudes, traits, and behaviours that became the standard against which all other masculinities are measured and against which individual men measure the. The most influential masculinity that all other masculinities are compared to. Image of masculinity of men who hold power: a man in power, with power, of power. The display of sociability rather than technical competence, fragility in mating scenes, compliance with men"s desires for titillation and ego-stroking in office relationships, acceptance of marriage and child care as response to labor-market discrimination against women (connell 1987)