WGST 2812 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hegemonic Masculinity, Precarious Work, Risk Society

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2812
• Professor: Annipprirya Sriskandarajah

Document Summary

Hegemonic masculinity relations of practice between different men. View that masculinity is a system of power relations between men and women and. Plurality of masculinities reflect differences among men and constitute specific. Contextual specific pattern of gender practice that ideologically legitimates the. Other masculinities stratified in comparison to hegemonic ideal. Subordinated masculinities: men oppressed by hegemonic definition of masculinity. Complicit masculinities: men who do not employ or enact hegemonic ideal but reap subordination of women and men. It is not the most common forms of masculinity but rather the one that people come to accept as the ideal for example gay men or men seen as effeminate benefits from it (referred to patriarchal dividend") Hegemonic masculinity and emphasized femininities contradistinction to femininities. Hegemonic masculinity emphasizes most masculinities constructed in. Achievement of masculinity involves reproduction of femininity. Emphasized femininity: revered features of femininity but not hegemonic. They do not assert and legitimize power over men.