SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Heterosexuality, Male Privilege, Hegemonic Masculinity
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Men are acting like women or becoming feminized. How does power work in a way that privileges masculinity. Weiser commercial: how men are doing gender in a particular way. Connell is saying that state organizational practices are structured in relation to the. Looking at violence -> how it is gendered. Its thinking about how ideas of masculinity are embedded into institutions. For example, the way that social networks work, the way that people get hired. When a man talks in a way that is assertive and loud, they will attract attention. It"s not that women do not hold power, but looking at power as a group. Politics of desire: looking at ideas of relationships (central or coercive) whether pleasure is given or receive. Young women want to get a higher education and take the position of men. Even though young women are getting higher levels of education, they are not necessarily getting a higher income.
