WGST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hegemonic Masculinity, Wgst, Gender Bender

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Women's &Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 200
• Professor: Tasha Dubriwny

Document Summary

The practice that creates a dominant social position for the most honored and desired men and subordinates women and all other men is hegemonic masculinity. The physiological division based upon indicators that include external genitalia, chromosomes, glandes and reproductive structures. To perform, apply or enforce gender roles is to do gender. The term establishing that there are varying definitions and enactments of masculinity across different contexts and time periods is plural masculinities. According to pascoe"s study the spectator of the f*g becomes a mechanism for policing masculinity. The f*g identity in pascoe"s study is not static but rather a fluid identity. The socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society assigns to men and women. In the video brandon and rachel patterns of infant development, dressed as rachel brandon was assigned more feminine characteristics. According to lorber, gender bending does not challenge gender boundaries. The standard categories are binary with only two options male and female.