WGS335H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, Candyass, Caspar Milquetoast

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS335H5
• Professor: Jeffrey May

Document Summary

Men are not the experts on masculinity: experiential knowledge and theoretical knowledge, conceptual separation between masculinity and men/male bodies. Feminists: central problem in gender relationships is patriarchy. Is it a "stable object of knowledge: thinking about masculinity and doing masculinity, problems with this, we can"t generalize about masculinity o, masculinity is not the thing we can study. We usually talk about masculinity - in - relation. Often in relation to femininity: masculinity and femininity are relational concepts: Institutional masculinity: example: utm, connell argues that institutions are substantively and metaphorically masculine. The was a father would rule a family. The school is thought to be masculine and the school itself is actually masculine. Multiple masculinities: hegemony, the multiple masculinities of the current western gender order: Hegemony is "the cultural dynamic by which a group claims and sustains a leading position in social life" (connell, 2005:77)