GNDS 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Prison Abolition Movement, Angela Davis, Barney Stinson
25 Mar 2018
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Femininities: women"s lives are depicted as geared towards romance and relationships, physical appearance and looking good constitutes the most important tool in the quest for looking for mr. Right. : the working women has entered popular culture but there is a renewed interest in domestic roles. Discourse masculinity: these categories are like ideal types and there are discourses on masculinities that co- exist with them. Some fictional characters from popular tv sitcoms as examples: the old man (traditional masculinity, the new man and the metrosexual, the new lad. The old man (traditional masculinity): defined in opposition to femininity. Associated with the area of the production-rather than consumption: traditional masculinity has been theorised as hegemonic masculinity for a long time. It is an impossible ideal to achieve and it is constructed in relation to marginalised, subordinate and complicit masculinities: he is unambiguously heterosexual and cisgender and could be overtly sexist and homophobic.
