Essays on masculinity

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao has attained both popular and critical acclaim. The novel is a melange of several interesting stylistic features. It brings social history, science fiction and magical fantasy all together in an experimental narrative form. The copious use of footnotes and imaginative asides are also notable. The novel is also […]

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, May 1997 v36 n9-10 p551(22) Advertising’s effects on men’s gender role attitudes. Jennifer Garst; Galen V. Bodenhausen. Author’s Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1997 Plenum Publishing Corporation We posited that media images of men influence the gender role attitudes that men express soon after exposure to the images. A total of 212 […]

Objectivity has received a bad name. This presents a special problem to the field of law, and it is a problem that argument scholars are in a position to shed some light on. Setting aside the radical Critical Legal conclusion that the only consistent action is to do away with law altogether, there is on […]

Typically, in western culture masculinity is traditionally constructed as a way to show physical superiority. Masculinity in society is typically shown through the physical body which shows that masculinity is generally constructed to be heroic and a dominant power. This is shown in the novel Lord of the Flies, the theme of masculinity through the […]

In this essay I plan to argue that the social position of women is clearly shown to be subordinate in ‘Midaq Alley’ and ‘Season of Migration to the North’. I will firstly examine how and why men pursue women in the two books. I shall also look at women’s status and rights in society. I […]

Introduction In this assignment, intellectuality will be employed to analyses drag performance and culture. Intellectuality was first introduced by the French cosmetician Julia Jerkiest in the late sixties, and describes how texts can be understood with references to other texts- often associated primarily with postindustrial theories. Karate’s referred to texts in terms of two axes: […]

Throughout the novel, the characters make numerous references to masculinity, emphasizing its value and standards during these times. Shakespearean references educate readers about the mentality of people during the uses and the traits in which defined a man. The role of a man included: dominance, ambition, and the ability to bare brutality with ease. Shakespeare […]

In his essay From Game to War, Alan Dundes creates a strong link between the aggressiveness males show both on the field of war and on the filed of play. He believes that this instinct that is shown in sports to check, push, trip, tackle, and hit one’s opponent is the same instinctual characteristic shown […]

The ideals surrounding sex and gender are perpetual. Arguments are still debated today regarding whether gender is a socially constructed idea, or whether the female and male sexes are naturally submissive and dominant respectively. Traditional gender roles – that of the submissive, fragile female and of the dominant and authoritarian male – had been the […]

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are two pieces of work in which a heroic woman is depicted. Both the memoir and the novella portray their female protagonists as going against the patriarchal grain – within a familial home and a Puritan society respectively – and subverting the stereotype […]

Looking at the representation of war, terror and international relations, feminist scholars such as Enloe and Cohen have suggested we look beyond the politics of diplomacy and foreign policy to consider how international politics may be built around gender relations; reinforcing notions of binary masculine/feminine identity, and how patriarchy may be used to create and […]

Gender roles have been reinforced and installed into our daily lives from the time of birth: “we are born either male or female, and most of us learn to behave in ways consistent with a specific society’s expectations for a particular sex” (Ackley, 2003, p. 374). These expectations of specific gender roles can be seen […]

As we can notice, in the novel the cement garden, within the subject of gender, a struggle in the boys, (Jack and Tom) to define their sexuality arises.Although both cases differ in many aspects; they share one same motive: the lack of male role models. The reason for this is that the only possible prospect […]

The sexual divide is arguably the most persistent and deepest divide in the world today (Epstein, 2007). Traditional masculine and feminine discourses play an important part in this obvious divide; these stereotypical sex roles contribute to the discrimination (Coghlan, 2006), degradation (Copenhaven & Eisler, 1996) and burdens millions of people around the world experience today, […]

The media forms and conventions of ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ (FWF) seem to show that it is mainly a British film. If you look at the generic codes and conventions used FWF you can see that they are of a stereotypical British nature and this is linked to the media representation of class, masculinity, […]

If one looks at the history of society, one will find that women have almost always occupied the status of second-class citizens. They were granted fewer liberties and agency, and as such, were looked at as inferior. When people in power sought to find out why this was, the argument always seemed to boil down […]

The notion of what it is to be a man or woman is a hugely difficult subject to pin. There is a multitude of research into the differences between the sexes, some of which is demonstrated here in this essay. Biological accounts of what it is to be a man or woman present the biological […]

In What Ways Does the “Permittivity of Gender” Support or Subvert Hydrotherapy’s? BY eely 989 Presentational Style: MEAL 7th Edition Essay Question: In what ways does the “permittivity of gender” support or subvert hydrotherapy’s? Hydrotherapy’s, by definition, refers to the “sex/gender systems that naturalized masculinity domination and normalize heterosexual family forms and corollary heterosexual identities […]

In countries such as Canada where sexual rights are equal, women are indeed complicit in their sexual oppression. It is so engrained in our society that many women are not even aware of when and how often they are being complicit. If women were not complicit, then women and men would truly be equal, there […]

Portfolio Question: How will you apply Hofstede’s or Trompenaars’ theory within your ICN group project. When applying Hofstede’s or Trompenaars’ theories of cultural dimensions, it will be important to concentrate on those dimensions which reflect the greatest difference in culture. In our case, our group will be examining the 1999 merger between auto manufacturers Nissan […]

Introduction In this survey, the function theory and contact theory has been used. Role theory explains the grounds why straight persons are prejudiced toward homosexuals and tribades concentrating on straight persons ‘ belief that homophiles breach expected societal functions. On the other manus, contact theory clarifies positive attitudes towards homosexuals and tribades developed by straight […]

Things Fall Apart Masculine/Feminine In most cultures an individual’s gender will influence their characterization. For instance, Ibo tribes in Africa classify people according to their gender. Women are thought as submissive individuals who are to some extent weaker than men. Men on the other hand are thought of as strong beings with much expected from […]