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    Disney and Masculinity

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    Michelle Barrandey WMST 113.3004 Professor Sully 4/28/13 Disney and masculinity today I want to present my project about how Disney films show masucliity in almost all Disney movies and the four types of masculinity.i want to give everyone the idea of how disney have shaped and influenecesx the idea of masculinity‚feminisxm and gender roles in young kids . Disney has many films in ehich thy show masuclinyt‚ feminicism and gender roles and often include violence‚sexist

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    Masculinity In Unforgiven

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    Masculinity is an extensive concept that is prevalent in many films. Filmmakers embed this concept in their films in order for viewers to model. Masculinity can be defined in several different ways‚ but in general terms‚ it is the capability of stepping up in situations. In a classic Western taking place in a distant town of Big Whiskey‚ whores offers service for cowboys at a bar. One day‚ two cowboys‚ Quick Mike and Davey Bunting cut up and scar a whore Delilah Fitzgerald‚ after her smirk remark

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    Masculinity/ Femininity Dimension in the Last Samurai According to Hofstede‚ Masculinity/ Femininity dimension explains Masculinity: The way the samurais in the movie were portrait are in fact extremely accurate to those that existed in the 18th century. From as young as seven or eight years of age‚ boys we turned from kids into killing samurais. In one of the scene’s of the movie‚ we see two young boys learning to fight with wooden sticks. Although so young‚ their skills were already better

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    The unethical implications of a culture that supports hyper masculinity “It’s just as hard to be Ken as it is to be Barbie.” Many would argue that this statement is blatantly false. They would contend that living in a male dominated world guarantee’s a women’s rattled with challenges regarding discrimination‚ sexism and equal rights. To invalidate women’s struggle in today’s society would be foolish and inaccurate. However‚ the statement above does not claim that women are not discriminated against;

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    Masculinity In Okonkwo

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    violence and bloodshed. Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent‚ but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell…” This quote demonstrates that unlike Okonkwo‚ Nwoye does not fit the Igbo ideal of masculinity. On page 13-14‚ Okonkwo describes his disappointment in Nwoye as he exhibits similar negative qualities as Unoka‚ especially laziness. “Nwoye‚ was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness

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    What Is Masculinity?

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    "Parents are often baffled by why boys work so hard at being boys‚ "says Michael Thompson. Understanding the measures of masculinity and endeavoring to fulfill them is a bit of every kid’s childhood. Most young fellows find the "tests of" masculinity disturbing and hard to pass. Additionally‚ a couple of young fellows find this technique especially horrifying in light of the way that they feel they don’t have the right capacities and leisure activities to be successful at being a child. Numerous

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    the environment‚ the individuals‚ the ideas‚ the culture that best fits who they want to become. The time frame that they live in can also be a factor that shapes the person’s personality. not everything that we do in the 21st century was acceptable in another century. When

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    Nature vs. Culture

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    The history of global conflict can be explained by examining the beginnings of interaction among men and what has caused them to behave in this way. The arguments of nature and nurture are typical argumentative factors that may determine whether or not violence and the tendency to engage in war is an inherent trait of men. Although the argument that nature is responsible for determining man’s conduct‚ the cultural values of men is a better and more realistic means of explaining the conflicts of

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    Femininity In Antigone

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    Whenever authority figures are opposed by someone they see as inferior to them‚ they usually feel obliged to preserve their power through displaying their dominance. Thus‚ when Creon‚ in Sophocles’ Antigone‚ is disobeyed by a woman‚ he feels the need to inflict punishment to not only her‚ but also the people connected to her. Throughout Scene II‚ although Creon is notified that Antigone was the caught trying to bury her brother‚ he seems to be doubtful of the possibility. Even when she is

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    Hegemonic Masculinity

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    Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept Origins: it formulated 2 decades ago‚ it was first proposed in reports from a field study in social inequality in Australian schools. “Towards a new sociology of Masculinity” critiques male sex role literatures and proposed a model of multiple masculinities and power relations. The gramscian term hegemony was current at the time in attempts to understand the stabilization of class relations. Before the women’s liberation movement‚ a literature in social

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