MHS 2330 Lecture 6: Lecture Notes 1:31

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- 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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