Madison Mock Writ 201 11/15/14 Dominican Masculinity and Its Downfall In reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ by Junot Diaz‚ there is a large emphasis imposed on both male and female gender roles of the Dominican Republic. Gender roles are social and behavioral norms that‚ within a specific culture‚ are widely considered to be socially appropriate for individuals of a specific sex. However in this book‚ it is apparent that there is an extreme machismo attitude that is expected of men from
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According to Itulua-Abumere (2013) “The sociology of masculinity concerns the critical study of men‚ their behaviors‚ practices‚ values and perspective” (p. 32). It’s important to study with this critical approach because it essentially highlights the way in which men’s power come to be differentiated‚ naturalized and embedded across all institutions (family‚ education‚ work place‚ government‚ etc.). In addition‚ it brings a different perspective to preexisting and gender-biased thinking. The critical
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Toxic masculinity is the idea that social expectations of masculinity and stereotypical attitudes towards men are detrimental to their emotional development. This recognition that gender stereotypes hurt men as well as women is a critical argument for the urgent and continuing need for re-examining gender roles in contemporary society. As a feminist‚ I appreciate that this article describes in detail how thoroughly ingrained cultural presumptions about gender are in our society and see it as a major
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appropriate to look at why sports participation at my school is so low. Sport is a necessary ingredient in having a healthy‚ happy life. As a growing number of young people are opting out of sport‚ actions need to be made to try and combat this. Femininity in sport Teenage girls still think sports are unfeminine. Sadly‚ there is still a belief in high schools today that it is not “cool” for a girl to be a jock. Sadly‚ it is still mostly true today. High school girls interviewed by Roselind Wiseman
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his work and his family‚ but is unraveling at the seams as his business becomes a hit and his wife becomes uncontrollable. Flor sees it all‚ and even though there is a language barrier she knows the heartache attached to this unstable family. Masculinity and feminity in the two different cultures are seen when John Clasky cries while driving Flor to the bus stop‚ which makes Flor confused on how to respond‚ the narrator then states that "To someone with first-hand knowledge of Latin machismo‚ he
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Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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Exploring the construction of hegemonic masculinity‚ we go through a contradicting state of the definition of manhood. Although contradictions appear‚ it is socially adapted and able to reside without conflict. Take manhood as this‚ “We think of manhood as a transcendent tangible property that each man must manifest in the world” (Kimmel‚ 1994). Meaning that manhood is merely an idea which is drilled into a man’s head by society‚ “Gender‚ we said‚ was an achieved status” (West and Zimmerman‚ 2015)
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Equally important as femininities‚ masculinity is socially constructed gender profiles that are categorized. Characterizing men in a specific category rather than equalizing them also diminishes them entirely by placing rigid expectations that are similar to that of societal views of
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The article The Dangerous Effects of Toxic Masculinity written by Sarah Sheppard describes toxic masculinity as “a concept used to define unhealthy and often traditional characteristics or attributes associated with men. men should be protectors‚ breadwinners‚ or leaders‚ or associating men with anger‚ selfishness‚ and aggression can be problematic and damaging” (Sheppard). Sheppard describes toxic masculinity as what a portion of people believe men should traditionally be. This can mean that the
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Freud‚ in his New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis‚ argues that there is ambivalence between daughters and their mothers and attempts to explain the cause of the ambivalence. By ambivalence he means a love/hate relationship in which the actor has opposing feelings for an object simultaneously. The source of the ambivalence is embedded in the process of feminization that girls undergo. I gathered that it is the product of two separate psychical changes that girls undergo. I will first explain
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