WGSS 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hegemonic Masculinity, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1105
• Professor: Vanessa Lovelace

Document Summary

A multiplicity of gender practices (regardless of their content) enacted by men whose bodies are assumed to be biologically male. A study of men, their behaviors, practices, values, and perspectives. Assume the male body is location of masculinity, assume biological basis of gender: understood as a form of dominance usually expressed through sexualized discourses, achieved by: All men do benefit, to different extents, from these views of masculinity: sexuality = a form of power that exists regardless of an individual"s sexual identity, a personal identity or a set of private practices. Becoming mr. cougar: institutionalizing heterosexuality and masculinity at river. High: school is organizer of sexual practices, identities, and meanings, child presents elf as normal girl/boy through discourses of heterosexuality, convention and regulation of sexual meaning organized in heteronormative and homophobic ways. Potentially dangerous to the delicate balance of the (hetero)sexual order established. Assure that not a fag by instantly becoming masculine again after performance.