xiv ABSTRAK Diah Kusumawati‚ S2204005. 2006. Konstruksi Maskulinitas Pada Media (Studi Analisis Wacana Pada Majalah Laki-laki “For Him Magazine”). Tesis : Program Pascasarjana Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami dan mendeskripsikan: (1) Konstruksi maskulinitas pada majalah laki-laki gaya hidup FHM. Tujuan tersebut dilengkapi dengan penjelasan realitas sosial yang melatarbelakangi hadirnya majalah laki-laki FHM (global dan lokal/Indonesia); (2) Konstruksi
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Temptresses use their feminine charms to reveal Odysseus’s promiscuous acts as well as his hubris. Calypso‚ a temptress in the epic‚ is a nymph who is “imprisoned” on the secluded‚ beautiful island‚ Ogygia. In Book IV‚ Odysseus is washed ashore on Ogygia and is there for seven years‚ continuously being tempted by Calypso. “True enough‚/ Calypso the lustrous goddess tried to hold me back‚/ deep in her arching caverns‚ craving me for a husband”(Homer IX. 33-36). Calypso’s attempts to make Odysseus
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Shakespeare conveys women to be subjected by views of purity and dependency on men in order to reflect the continuous struggle women go through in order to be treated equally in our everyday society. After her husband dies‚ Gertrude‚ Hamlet’s mother‚ immediately marries her brother-in law‚ Claudius. Moving quickly on from man to man without much mourning for her dead husband‚ Gertrude is dependent on the men in her life and can only live her life through another. She never questions Claudius’s reason
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culture defines masculinity. In the past‚ health of men was considered to be unproblematic and they benefited from hegemonic masculinity (refers to the most dominant form of masculinity in society. In present times‚ this refers to white‚ healthy‚ wealthy‚ assertive men who portray a ‘macho’ persona). But in contemporary society‚ men seem to suffer in health due to the expectations and challenges of portraying masculinity. For example‚ in the UK‚ young men are pressured to portray masculinity by living
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Introduction Sports are a very popular activity around the world. There are all different kinds of sports. You got basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ soccer‚ and many more‚ but those are just the mail four that are played in America or at least televised. If you look at sports they all have something in common. Either it is trying to score more points than the other team‚ and all of them require some sort of round shaped object. Also‚ sports require a team and you work together as a team. Although
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gendered body were “viewed as along a continuum” moving in one direction or the other (Fisher‚ 6). This early modern thought implies that gender as a performance rather than its ontological core on the stage. Shakespeare’s comedies may suggest that masculinity on the stage is like “a suit of clothes” that could be put on or taken off at will (Smith‚ 3). While the controversy surrounding women allowed dramatists of this period to portray them in ways that defined and questioned the validity of the old
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written by Robert Jensen‚ a journalism professor at the University of Texas‚ in Austin‚ he tells us that “if we could get rid of the whole idea of masculinity‚ we have a chance to create a better world for men and women.” He states that it’s not easy to be a man in our society‚ especially with the demands that come with the dominant conception of masculinity‚ which is where men are perceived to be tough‚ competitive and aggressive and must show those qualities in order to prevail as a “real man.” He
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The concept of masculinity is encouraged and reinforced to young boys before they are able to comprehend what they are being taught. Society regurgitates these ideologies of what is an acceptable form of masculinity‚ and passes them on to other men and boys. The exposure that young boys and other men retain from what masculinity should be‚ is not limited to what their family consciously projects on to them‚ but also in various forms of media. Such as‚ on television‚ within the film at the movie theaters
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Lysistrata a classic greek comedy written by Aristophanes‚ who is considered to be the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC‚ Lysistrata is a comic account of a woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex‚ which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata‚ a middle-class Athenian housewife‚ plans a
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have to purge themselves of their femininity to achieve the level of acceptance that they hope to reach‚ while others are proud of being feminine and feminist. This has become a point of contention amongst many women‚ causing women to question whether femininity and feminism can coexist. If we abandon femininity‚ we are creating a new stereotype. While being strong and achieving gender equality is a noble cause‚ no one should be required to sacrifice their femininity; unfortunately‚ many women are
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