SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hegemonic Masculinity, Genderqueer, Masculinity
30 Nov 2017
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Examine the extent to which we can consider pop culture to be gendered. Draw on feminism analysis to analyze pop culture and advertising. Explore different ways in which men, women and non-binary genders are not represented in pop culture. We examine hegemonic masculinities and femininities and the operations of gender ideology in advertising and pop culture. Theorize how gender operates as an organizing principle of society. Examine the link between historical notions of gender ideology and how they are reproduced in the present: usa(cid:374) bordo"s (cid:272)hapter. How our lives are organized around gender now. Men are from mars, women are from venus. How texts like these are constructing gender. What do we learn about what it means to be male and female from these contexts (bachelor, movies, music, etc. ) Reproducing idea of femininity that is controversial. Sex: the categories of make and female; the biological characteristics and properties of bodies placed in these categories.
