FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hegemonic Masculinity, The Dilemma, Autoethnography

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2104
• Professor: Emilie Dionne

Document Summary

The dilemma of disabled masculinity shuttleworth, wedgewood, wilson. Tepper (looked at sexuality before and after injury) argued that typical masculine socialization in the united states has dire consequences for men who acquire an impairment post-adolescence and lose their strength and sense of self-reliance. He suggested that, in reconstructing their masculine identities in the face of their new impairment, disabled men must learn how to express fear and despair. As he puts it, disabled men [not only] differ from one another, but . individual disabled men receive and embody contradictory and confusing messages"". Employing the three interacting concepts of: (1) the stigma of impairment; (2) gender as an interactional process; and (3) hegemonic masculinity as a gender standard. People with impairments are not passive victims of a society that fails to include them". Nor, we would add, does it challenge, but rather attempts to recuperate, hegemonic forms of masculinity.