SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hegemonic Masculinity, Role Theory, Feminist Theory
3 May 2018
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Intersectionality
Intersectional Axis: ‘Race’
- ‘Race’, gender and health
- Mortality and morbidity measures: gender and health
- Conventional approach: Life expectancy women vs. men
- Intersectional approach: “White women have a life expectancy at birth
that exceeds that of their Black peers by 5.2 years” (Williams, 2002:
588)
- Morbidity and Racial/ ethnic differences
- “Racial/ ethnic disparities in the severity and course of the
disease also contribute to observed disparities in disease
prevalence and mortality” (Williams, 2002: 588)
- I.e. breast cancer
Men’s Studies and Masculinity Studies
- Gender studies= women’s studies?
- Reaction to malestream thought in history academic, biomedicine
- But if gender is relational, need to consider men and masculinity as well
- “Man” = homogeneous category?
- Man and men as a stable category by radical feminists
- Masculinity + females, women
- Femininity + Males, men
- Approach to men’s studies, masculinity studies
- Anti-feminist backlash
- Assertions of victimization, emasculation
- Fears of negative effects on social relations
- Desire to reclaim power through true manhood, masculinity
- Critical and Feminist approaches
- Incorporate insights of critical and feminist theory
- Connell, Hearn, Kimmel
- Informed by feminist and critical gender scholarship
- Men and masculinities as explicitly gendered
- Men and masculinities as historical and social constructs
(therefore changing and variable)
- Emphasis on gendered power relations
- Multiple masculinities
- Origins: Response to sex role theory
- 1987: Carrigan, Connell and Lee
- Critiqued use of masculinity in sex role theory
- Ignores power, domination
- Puts it on natural occurrences of one’s sex
- The disintegration of binarized sex roles can
create individual happiness for people who felt
oppressed by those roles. Freedom from these
oppressions can improve societal relations
Document Summary
Mortality and morbidity measures: gender and health. Conventional approach: life expectancy women vs. men. Intersectional approach: white women have a life expectancy at birth that exceeds that of their black peers by 5. 2 years (williams, 2002: Racial/ ethnic disparities in the severity and course of the disease also contribute to observed disparities in disease prevalence and mortality (williams, 2002: 588) Reaction to malestream thought in history academic, biomedicine. But if gender is relational, need to consider men and masculinity as well. Man and men as a stable category by radical feminists. Desire to reclaim power through true manhood, masculinity. Men and masculinities as historical and social constructs (therefore changing and variable) Critiqued use of masculinity in sex role theory. Puts it on natural occurrences of one"s sex. The disintegration of binarized sex roles can create individual happiness for people who felt oppressed by those roles. Freedom from these oppressions can improve societal relations. Homogenizing effect on understanding men and women.
