FEM 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antonio Gramsci, Hegemonic Masculinity, Gender Role

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

Document Summary

Invoking an idea of nostalgia (a time in the past when masculinity was clear and definite) Connell developed the idea of hegemonic masculinity in late 1970s while critiquing the male sex role. Look at how masculinity and femininity were complex. Hierarchies existing among men and their relations to women. Built on anti-racist feminist critiques who challenge the universalizing claims of men as a category. Normative masculinity: it embodied the currently most honored way of being a man , embodiment in a current context: being with women/sexual accumulation, avoid being emotional, being a provider. Meanings are always changing and being challenged. Gramsci was the initiator of the socio-cultural production of coercion and consent. Communist from southern italy growing up in a peasant family. Ended up in prison in northern italy. Wanted us to think about the exercise of power beyond violence through the production of culture: power and domination, marx: the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas .