Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: James Freeman Clarke, Masculinity
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The more images and different types of masculinity we portray in media will allow men to feel comfortable expressing themselves. Cultural differences in how masculinity is enacted and performed. In the process of becoming a man, whether from boyhood or from some other gendered location, we model ourselves on the men around us" (bergman) Allen and kivel identify cycles of violence - not to excuse abuse, but to detect the root of the problem. Oakland men"s project operates to help men make the connection between how they have been trained and hurt and ho they have learned to pass that pain on by hurting women or young people". Bergman some jewish men expertise dominance over their wives an children because they feel emasculated in their business or public lives". Portraying batterers as ogres only serves to separate them" from us". Gender roles and social interaction involve making choices, and we must choose alternatives to violence.