SOCB22H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinity, Male Privilege
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How does power work in a way that privileges masculinity. Weiser commercial: how men are doing gender in a particular way. Connell is saying that state organizational practices are structured in relation to the. Looking at violence -> how it is gendered. Its thinking about how ideas of masculinity are embedded into institutions. For example, the way that social networks work, the way that people get hired. When a man talks in a way that is assertive and loud, they will attract attention. He was thinking about how being a male can privilege himself (if he is walking down the street, he is not scared because he is a man) Hegemonic masculinity: the way that some cultural forms are constituted as the ideal. Hegemony doesn"t necessarily have to go with violence but connell is trying to say is how there is a certain type of masculinity that is privileged more than others.
