SOCB22H3 Lecture 5: Week 5 reading notes
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Yet the issues it names are very much at stake in contemporary struggles about power and political leadership, public and private violence, and changes in family and sexuality. The high school project provided empirical evidence of multiple hierarchies in gender as well as in class terms- interwoven with active projects of gender constructions. The beginnings were systematized in an article, towards a new sociology of masculinity , which extensively critiqued the male sex role literature and proposed a model of multiple masculinities and power relations. The gramscian term hegemony was current at the time in attempts to understand the stabilization of class relations. In the context of dual system theory, the idea was easily transferred to the parallel problem of gender relations. Power and difference were the core concepts in the gay liberation movement, which developed a sophisticated analysis of the oppression of men as well as oppression by men.
