Masculinity Studies

Question 1

Gender Policing

Answer 1

Act of forcing someone to perform the norms of the gender they were assigned at birth

Question 2

What kind of system is gender policing?

Answer 2

Reward/Punishment

Question 3

What is most used to police men about their masculinity?

Answer 3

Verbal language (slurs)

Question 4

What are the important tropes of hegemonic masculinity? (4)

Answer 4

Violence
Sexuality
Power
Stoicism

Question 5

Why is the man box contradictory? (3)

Answer 5

1.Supposed to do all traits of man box at once, but there are things you just CANNOT do at the same time
2. contains trait some men will never have or will outgrow
3. undermines agency that it supposedly “celebrates”

Question 6

What is masculinity studies?

Answer 6

Branch of feminist scholarship that seeks to expose how masculinity is constructed, expose toxic hegemonic masculinity and seek solutions

Question 7

What is the risk of masculinity studies?

Answer 7

May re-center men

Question 8

What does Brod’s reading suggest about violent men?

Answer 8

Violent men are not deviants, they are OVER conformists of the Man Box