SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Beauty Myth, Laura Mulvey, Hegemonic Masculinity
5 Apr 2017
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Iron maiden the standards of beauty that females try to attain normal men. In soc where the hegemonic defn of masculinity involves being tough and not being emotional than rates of violence are going to be higher. Good and bad masculine violence: k and h say that we need to pay attn. to the way that race and class intersect w gender to understand the relationship b. w masculinity and violence. In usa, black men are increasingly the subjects of violence. Imp soc context and gatherings have an implication on men. Boys will be boys: gender and school violence. In the media this man is not even stated to be only a man, but rather an islamic male: toxic masculinity, arguments towards an understanding of the shooting as a result of toxic masculinity. In comparison to cnd, there is a lot more activism in latin america.
