Masculinity Essays

According to a prominent women’s rights advocate and University of Oregon professor, feminism is the belief that women have equal rights as men. Although this term did not gain popularity until after the Cold War, human rights have always been equal for both genders. However, events in the 1980s and 1990s brought about changes to […]

In the opening section of chapter one, the structure of an Academic Novel is outlined as a summary. According to the definition, a campus novel is a novel in which the setting or characters are related to an academy or campus. Originally, these novels depicted academic life in Oxford and Cambridge. Over time, significant changes […]

Sport is an country in which patriarchal power is at the same time contested and reproduced ( Messner, 1988 ; Sabo & A ; Messner, 1993 ) . Harmonizing to Messner ( 1988 ) , in an attempt to reaffirm white, middle-class, male domination in early nineteenth century America, organized athletics was constructed. The kingdom […]

Introduction The survey uses function theory and contact theory to examine the prejudice of straight individuals towards homosexuals and lesbians. Role theory explains that this prejudice arises from the belief that homosexuals violate societal roles. On the other hand, contact theory suggests that positive attitudes towards homosexuals and lesbians are formed by straight individuals through […]

Our hypothesis was that media images of men have an impact on the gender role attitudes expressed by men shortly after being exposed to those images. A group consisting of 212 men (87% European American, 7% Asian or Asian American, 3% African American, and 3% other) were shown magazine advertisements that contained images of men […]

Ho is a movie about the takeover of an American automobile factory in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania by a Japanese company. The term Gung Ho is a Chinese expression for “work together” which is what the movie is about. As the Americans and Japanese attempt to work together the viewers are able to see the cross-cultural conflicts […]

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 […]

The Media and Tough Guise In Jackson Katz’s video Tough guise: violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity, Katz presents the media as culprits in creating a culture crisis in masculinity. In the video, Katz uses the movie The Wizard Oz as a way to describe the use of the term “tough guise”. In the […]

The children’s novel ‘45 and 47 Stella Street and everything that happened’ (Honey, 1995) written by Elizabeth Honey is a novel aimed at pre-adolescent girls. However in saying that boys around the same age would also find this book enjoyable. The story is told from the perspective of Hinni who is an 11 year old […]

How can someone pursue a personal desire if they spent their life trying to conform? Alden Nowlan’s short story, “The Glass Roses” explores this through the protagonist, Stephen. Stephen’s personal desire to feel accepted conflicts with his feeling of having to become like the pulp cutters because he is not mentally or physically ready to […]

Society’s constructed perspectives about gender are influenced by characters presented in film and television illustrations. Mulan is a brave, resourceful female role model. Director, Tony Bancroft told Christian Post that “Mulan is different; it cuts the mould. It tells the story of a girl who can’t help who she is but exists in a society […]

Anthropologist Margaret Mead addressed the differences in temperament found between men and women in her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935). In this study she concluded that sex has no bearing on social traits and the temperament of an individual. Her research looked at whether masculine or feminine traits are innate or […]

In order for a text to remain, relevant and intriguing to responders throughout many contexts, it must challenge conventional roles and values in a revealing and provocative manner. A role that is vital to human understanding is the concept of gender and the effect it has on identity. Through the challenging of these binary gender […]

The play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare discusses power dynamics in the seventeenth century while also questioning them. It revolves around Macbeth, a character who has courage and ambition but is haunted by doubt, which ultimately compels him to commit murder in his pursuit of power. While the play mainly focuses on Macbeth’s psychological journey and […]

If a person displays masculine, feminine or androgynous behavior, then what determines this? The two main arguments are either gender is innate or it has been learnt. These two different perspectives represent a famous debate that occurs throughout psychology: the nature-nurture debate. The nature side of the debate states that gender is biological. This would […]

Society categorizes individuals by gender, either masculine or feminine, but how does one determine which surpasses the other? Society determines the way we look at gender and what role it plays in the construction of society. This is not only in America but around the world as well. In American society, Men are classified as […]

In all likelihood, prehistoric human societies likely possessed approximately 5 or 6 gender identities, which aligned with human nature. It is undeniable that certain ancient tribes (such as the Native Americans or the Bugis of Sulawesi, among others) perpetuated this notion. In contrast to contemporary Western societies where the number of gender identities may be […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Objectivity has gained a negative reputation, which poses a particular challenge for the field of law. Argument scholars can potentially provide insight into this problem. While some argue for the extreme position of abolishing law entirely, others maintain that as long as a legal system exists, judges must maintain objectivity (Nagel, 1993). The rationale is […]

Claudia Valentine’s Distinctive Voice and Character Analysis Claudia Valentine, being the protagonist of The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender, has been successfully developed in the text to both support and subvert the stereotype of a male hard-boiled detective, where she is portrayed as a female private detective who inheres the traditional characteristics of a […]