1 / 8

Female Masculinity

Female Masculinity. By: Audrey Allyn & Skylar Smith. Masculinity . Dominant masculinity Naturalized relation between maleness and power Excessive masculinity Focused on black bodies, L atino bodies or working class bodies Insufficient masculinity

adelle
Télécharger la présentation

Female Masculinity

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Female Masculinity By: Audrey Allyn & Skylar Smith

  2. Masculinity • Dominant masculinity • Naturalized relation between maleness and power • Excessive masculinity • Focused on black bodies, Latino bodies or working class bodies • Insufficient masculinity • Figured by Asian bodies or upper class bodies • Why is it that we have trouble defining masculinity but have no trouble recognizing it?

  3. Female Masculinities • “Female masculinities are framed as rejected scraps of dominant masculinity in order that ml masculinity may appear to be the real thing” • Why is masculinity most associated with men? • What do you think female masculinity is?

  4. James Bond • Which characters would you consider masculine? • James Bond • M • Agent Q • Miss Moneypenny

  5. James Bond cont. • Agent Q • Seen as interpretation of queer and dominant regimes • M • Chastises him for being a misogynist and a sexist • Exposes sham of Bond’s own performance • Most convincingly performs masculinity • These 2 characters provide a remarkable representation of absolute dependence of dominant masculinities on minority masculinities

  6. Tomboys • Extended childhood period of female masculinity • “Female gender deviance more tolerated than male gender deviance” (pg. 358) • Is this because, as a society, we fear it is a threat to masculinity? • As soon as puberty hits, the full force of gender conformity descends on girls • Why is this?

  7. The Bathroom Problem • “Ambiguous gender, when and where it does appear, is inevitable transformed into deviance, thirdness, or a blurred version of either male or female” (pg. 365) • Women’s bathrooms an arena for enforcement of gender conformity • Sanctuary of enhanced femininity • Why is femininity easily impersonated or performed while masculinity seems resistant to imitation?

  8. SNL Skit “It’s Pat” • Produced laughs by sidestepping gender fixity • Pat’s partner had a neutral name • Everything Pat did or said could be read either way • Why, as a society, are we committed to maintain a binary gender system? • http://w`ww.youtube.com/watch?v=VwT1kp0C3Ss

More Related