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    Masculinity

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    Conceptions of masculinity vary depending on the socio-cultural contexts in which they emerge‚ influenced by social class‚ ethnicity‚ sexuality‚ and poverty (Connell‚ 2005: 833). While womanhood is attributed based on biological reasons‚ manhood is attributed according to social reasons: it is a “self that is imputed to an individual based on information given and given off in interaction” (Schrock & Schwalbe‚ 2009: 280). Accordingly‚ a person’s manhood must be consistently won through the approval

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    Masculinity Men use their masculinity in all its complexly nuanced forms to achieve their goals in ways rather different from the ways women achieve theirs. Masculinity is the articulation of dominance and male gender yet gender is nothing but the construction of difference. Society‚ media‚ and the way a person is raised or brought up are factors that affect people’s lives. An example of this is when Susan Brownmiller writes‚ “As I passed through a stormy adolescence to a stormy maturity

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    The Summary of masculinity in movies Masculine roles have effective power in recent movies. In the chapter‚ the author who is Kenneth Mackinnon talks about ‘masculinity in movies’ by variety ways. He not only considers about the different kinds of movie genres‚ individual movies and those male movie stars in general‚ but also introduces the hard body and soft body contrastively for audience. Moreover‚ Mackinnon mentions about the disadvantages of masculinity in the films and provides three recent

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    and Guyland: Cross-Cultural Accomplishment of Masculinities Ⅰ. Introduction In this essay‚ “Ladylike Men and Guyland: Cross-Cultural Accomplishment of Masculinities”‚ explores how culture influence the perception and communication of gender manifestation‚ specifically masculinity. Beginning with a discussion of gender‚ using Japan and the United States as comparative models‚ this essay explores the role of culture in the development of masculinity in the two countries. Our report focuses on the

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    The Altar of the Family

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    critical of the father’s perspective on masculinity. Figurative language emphasises the opposing ideas of masculinity and setting described in the text produces different environments in which diverse ideas of gender are challenged. Point of view used in “The Altar of the Family” enables the reader to empathise with the main character. The text aligns the reader with David and is positioned to reject‚ therefore challenge the traditional ideas of masculinity. ‘So he played with his younger sister

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    up masculine”‚ this is not a term which can be described and understood in a few sentences. Masculinity is a term frequently used in today’s modern society but do we know it’s true meaning? Over the course of this paper we shall discuss what masculinity is and how it can affect the lives of boys as they mature and grow into men. The first issue that needs to be discussed is that of gender and what masculinity really means. When a person is born depending on whether they are male or female they will

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    Ali HassanEnder’s game essay 21 April 2013 Ender’s Game has many deep thoughts the reader can conclude. One of the important themes that the story has is the relationship between masculinity and femininity. I like to call the relationship between masculinity and femininity in Ender’s Game “the circulation of features”. This name derived from the description and changes in characters. At the beginning the story gives the typical features of men and women. Women are emotional‚ but men are cold-hearted

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    Michelle Hardy Winter Mini 2014 Sociology of Gender EXAM III Kimmel meant by “The Self-Made Man” that he was self-control and took care of his own life and how he wanted to live it‚ in all aspects. It became known as the American definition of manhood‚ although it did have a rough start. Some of these principles changed through out time‚ but some remained the same. The major changes in this archetype were shown in the play The Contrast that Kimmel talks about. He shows three different types of manhood

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    Dismantling gender hierarchies: being Authentic Self Gender hierarchies are caused by social construction. Social norms embedded in the Guy Code confine young men in a small social circle with limited gender roles options based on the concept of masculinity. Such idea has been demonstrated in ‘“Bros Before Hos’: The Guy Code” written by Michael Kimmel. Kimmel argues that males are only allowed to adopt an imposed gender identity prescribed by the Guy Code. If young men go beyond of the male boundary

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    examine the larger sociopolitical structure that masculinities is a part of. Is this work successful of that? And what are the theoretical/action-based implications of re-visioning masculinities as a particular product of a particularizing gender system (especially one

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