MDSB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter PDF: Heterosexism, Heterosexuality, United States
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"heterosexuality is one component of hegemonic masculinities in western cultures, especially in the united states. " "kimmel (2001, 282) argues more forcefully, that "homophobia, men"s fear of other men, is the animating condition of the dominant definition of masculinity in america, In this article, data are drawn from a number of complementary sources. Survey data come from three surveys of two types performed by classes at the. United states: dudes originally referred to "old rags", and a dudesman, "scarecrow. " In the latter half of the nineteenth century, "dude became synonymous with dandy, a term used to designate a sharp dresser in the western territories [of the united. In the 1980s, young people began to use dude as an exclamation of delight and/or affection. In reviewing the tokens of dude in the tapes from the author"s year-worth of ethnographic work in an american all-male fraternity, he had found that dude appears overwhelmingly in utterance-initial or utterance-final position.
