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Slides - Lecture 8 - Fall 2023

The document discusses masculinities and normativity. It explores how traditional masculinity is defined by power, responsibility, strength, money and aggressiveness. But it notes that this renders other ways of being a man invisible. It discusses how focusing only on hegemonic masculinity fails to acknowledge non-hegemonic forms. The document examines how men are also gendered and how failing to view men as gendered makes the issue of gender invisible. It explores masculinity as an ideology that influences how people live. Finally, it questions whether identities themselves can be considered ideologies.

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Slides - Lecture 8 - Fall 2023

The document discusses masculinities and normativity. It explores how traditional masculinity is defined by power, responsibility, strength, money and aggressiveness. But it notes that this renders other ways of being a man invisible. It discusses how focusing only on hegemonic masculinity fails to acknowledge non-hegemonic forms. The document examines how men are also gendered and how failing to view men as gendered makes the issue of gender invisible. It explores masculinity as an ideology that influences how people live. Finally, it questions whether identities themselves can be considered ideologies.

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Women, Gender,

Feminism: An
Introduction
Lecture 8:
Masculinities
Learning outcomes:

Understand the relationship between Normativity and Belonging;

Understand the relationship between


Masculinity-Femininity-Queerness and NORMATIVITY ;

Comprehend the importance of Masculinities Studies;

Be capable of establishing their own critical thoughts about Gender


Marks and performance.
Normativity
Are oppressed people nicer?

Sam Troye
Normativity
We have different ways to see
different gender identities.
Tradicional Masculinity

Power
Responsibility
strength
money
aggressiveness
Tradicional Masculinity

power
responsibility no beauty
strength no fluidity
money no feelings
aggressiveness no affection
When we don't talk about
other masculinities, we make
many ways of being a man
invisible.
Masculinities
A CRUCIAL PART OF THE ENDURING
APPEAL OF CONNELL'S THEORY IS
THAT IT PROVIDES A CRITICAL
FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF HISTORICALLY
SPECIFIC MASCULINITIES WHILST AT
THE SAME TIME ACKNOWLEDGING THE
VARYING DEGREES TO WHICH
INDIVIDUAL MEN PLAY IN ITS
REPRODUCTION.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-HEGEMONIC Raewyn Connell


FORMS OF MASCULINITY.

Learn More
Masculinities

Are men gendered??!


Masculinities

Are men gendered??!


When we fail to
gendered men, we make
the gender issue
invisible.
Masculinities

Are men gendered??!


"The key difference is
that because men
represent the dominant
gender, their gender is
rendered invisible in the
discourse about
violence."

JACKSON KATZ – HUFF POST, “MEMO TO MEDIA: MANHOOD, NOT GUNS OR MENTAL ILLNESS, SHOULD BE CENTRAL”, HUFF
POST,
Masculinities

Are men gendered??!


"Don't buy the
manipulative argument
that it's somehow "anti-
male" to focus on
questions about
manhood in the wake of
these ongoing
tragedies."
JACKSON KATZ – HUFF POST, “MEMO TO MEDIA: MANHOOD, NOT GUNS OR MENTAL ILLNESS, SHOULD BE CENTRAL”, HUFF
POST,
Masculinities and ideology
Masculinities and ideology

"MASCULINITY AS AN IDEOLOGY,
A SERIES OF BELIEFS THAT A Myths
GROUP OF PEOPLE BUY INTO Images
AND THAT INFLUENCES Speech
HOW THEY GO ABOUT THEIR Practices
LIVES."
Masculinities

The discursive
construction of
the subject.

Foucault
Are Identities ideologies?
For next class

Mandatory Readings:
Spargo, T. (1999). Foucault and queer theory. New York: Icon Books. (p. 4-50)

Recommended Material:
Ullman, S. (2018). Queer Performance and Popular Culture, in The Routledge History of Queer
America. Routledge, 359-370.

Smith, A. (2010). Queer theory and native studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism.
GLQ, 16(1-2), 41–68. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2009-012

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