FEM 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hegemonic Masculinity, Downtown Ottawa, Homosociality

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

Document Summary

Lecture 7: the question of violence (oct. 4) Idea of the warrior entwined with our hegemonic ideas of masculinity. What are we talking about when we talk about hegemonic masculinity and violence: expressions of violence in the public and private sphere. Scaling: violence is happening at multiple levels. What is unique about the particular strain of violent masculinity expressed in. American political and military foreign policy is its transnational impact, affects the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, both directly and indirectly. Kimmel describes this performance as a homosocial enactment: manhood demonstrated to and for other men. Enforced on all levels: institutional and peers. Tough guise 2 film: learned behaviour vs. taught behaviour: the ways in which people and institutions are complicit, instead of blaming individual for wrongful acts, blame structures. Intergenerational picture of father and son: need to understand violence in its context, essential to denaturalize it, and challenge it, colonialism, white supremacy.