SOC345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Essentialism, Machismo, Human Reproduction
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masculinity is not a coherent object about which a generalizing science can be produced. Yet we can have coherent knowledge about the issues raised in these attempts. If we broaden the angle of vision, we can see masculinity, not as an isolated object, but as an aspect of a larger structure. All societies have cultural accounts of gender, but not all have masculinity In modern usage, term assumes one"s behaviour results from the type of person one is: this conception believes that people have differences and agency, but the concept is relational. Definitions of masculinity taken our cultural standpoint for granted, followed different strategies to characterize the type of person who is masculine. To list what men and women do requires people already be sorted into these categories of men and women. Focus on processes and relationships through conduction of gendered lives.
