MHS 2330 Lecture 6: Lecture Notes 1:31
Lecture Notes:
- Hegemony- overarching ideologies and taken for granted ideas practiced and performed
w consent and without coercion
o Assumed norms and beliefs, for the most part not questions
o Fundamental outlook of a society
o Hegemony is what is acceptable, natural, normal
- Hegemonic masculinity
o Idealized form of masculinity in a given place, time and culture, initially used to
connote the hegemony involved in the patriarchal system of gender relations
▪ Embodies most honored ways of being a man
▪ Require all men to position themselves in relation to it
• Each individual figuring out who they are in relation to other men
and the hegemonic masculinity ideal
▪ Ideologically legitimated through global subordination of women
o 1950s male
▪ Red from that 70s show even a little deviant bc he isnt that misogynistic
o Distinguished from other masculinities, particular subordinated masculinities
- Subfields
o Culturally dominant ideal varies between age/ethnic/economic/
disabled/GBTIQ/etc. groups and they all maintain their own subfield masculinity
- Mosaic Masculinities
o Process by which men negotiate masculinity, drawing upon pieces of hegemonic
masculinity that they have the capacity to perform
▪ Men lack some aspects of what hegemonic masculinity expects
▪ Ex. The Rock vs Bill Gates, the masculinity of both are defined differently
(physical ability and appearance vs financial/entrepreneurial success)
o Individual man redefines masculinity along these lines
o Often equated (conflated) maleness with masculine
o Stressed differences between men and women (relational construct)
- Many men do not strive to meet Hegemonic ideal- Coles 2010
o “Comfortable with their own masculinity despite inability to fit the hegemonic
ideal
o declared hegemonic masculinity to be damaging to men
o avoided defining masculinity according to (what they think of as) restrictive
stereotypes of the culturally perceived masculine ideal “
o Restrict the ideal but do not reject masculinity
- Communities of practice- Creighton Oliffe 2010
o “Theoretical framework for investigating how identities are learned and
reproduced within various subgroups and locations
o Men’s health practices are product of the given community- ppl w shared
network, identity, norms, and social practices
o Smaller group- ex family/friend group/workplace
o Often a closed system where group masculinity norms are enforced via insults
and teasing between group members
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