FEM 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hegemonic Masculinity, Fidel Castro, Masculinity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 3100
• Professor: Fiona Jeffries

Document Summary

Complicit masculinity : complicit: masculine ideal is almost impossible to achieve for most people, but there is a form of masculinity that benefits from hegemonic masculinity and doesn"t actively challenge it. Colluding femininity : the ways in which women are brought into/supportive of dominant hegemonic practice through emphasize femininity (i. e. trumpettes) Hegemonic masculinity is not just about people who identify as men. It is power structures and relations that are enrolled in this. Core of the concept: a combination of plurality of masculinities and a hierarchy of masculinities. The conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity should explicitly acknowledge the possibility of democratizing gender relations, of abolishing power differentials, not just reproducing hierarchy . The complicated ways in which women are enrolled in emotionality and expression of emotion; the ways in which everyone is caught up in this dynamic. The ways in which dominations act together (us society) Cultural representations justify and deflect, enabling hegemonic masculinities to be.