WOMS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pressure Cooking, Social Control Theory, Model Behavior

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS240
• Professor: marielaberge

Document Summary

Hierarchical societies based on domination and control need to repress other desires to maintain control. These desires don"t need to be repressed to have social order ii: masculinity is based on passive pleasure, 2nd factor that forms the basis of individual acquisition of gender i. ii. Long period of childhood and connections between parents and children. Extended childhood is significant in societies with certain characteristics iii. iv: children raised by isolated individual women, small families, not extended communities involved in child rearing, rigid gender expectations. If hegemonic masculinity is about domination, power, activity and aggression why is masculinity fragile: masculinity exists as a social phenomena - an ideology about behavior. It gets directed back onto themselves in guilt, self-hate and other psychological problems vi. Radical socioeconomic and political changes are necessary since patriarchal domination and class domination reinforce systems of authority and masculinity: men"s support groups iii.