CAS AN 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Machismo, Masculinity, Femininity
6 Feb 2018
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53: protectiveness of his family: courage in the face of a threat to honor, but not a bully. Mediterranean masculinity: 4 moral imperatives: procreating (sexuality; sexually active; impregnating women, provisioning one dependents (working hard; supporting family, protecting one"s family, personal autonomy (out in the public sphere; autonomous from domestic sphere; adventuring; wandering) The oedipal conflict: at the center of the oedipal stage (roughly ages 3-6) is the oedipal conflict. 27: not as difficult for girls because their identity with their mothers are more constant, thus, for the boy the task of separation and individuation carries added burden and peril (gilmore, pg. 27) achieving manhood is harder than achieving womanhood: main threat to the boy isn"t castration anxiety, but the possibility that the guy will never leave the warmth and affection of his mother (gilmore, pg. 28: the danger is the return to the primal maternal symbiosis (gilmore, pg.
