MDSC02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Project Gender : Lad Culture, Retrograde Analysis, Masculinity
Document Summary
Provoke contemporary debate about so-called crisis of masculinity. crisis manifested in different ways, shifts in individual men"s behaviour, group responses, popular media reactions: a new moral panic: masculinity in crisis. In number of ways, contemporary media representations of masculinity often frame men as dysfunctional and/or in crisis. Real differences in achievement and success in life not between women and men but between men, and key influences in determining that success or failures are demographic in nature, such as class, ethnicity, and age: men"s lifestyle magazines. Retrograde analysis puts woman back into the corset from which they heavenly recently fought their way free, turning them back into whores in the bedroom and angels in the kitchen. Slut-saint dichotomy is perfectly captured by advertising industry"s shorthand for advertisements which feature women demonstrating kitchen products: weldon"s analysis also requires women to take on another role for problem child her man has now become.