Masculinities

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Humor in Faulkner: a telling tale of performative masculinity and how it polices race/sexuality

The wit and jokes which characters in “The Hamlet” by Faulkner elucidate a more problematic thought on performative masculinity and how it polices the “other.” Race and sex is tangled in the humor of his texts as he, according to… Continue Reading →

Meat and Masculinity: the effects the two have on each other

Eating meat has, universally, been largely associated with powerful performances of masculinity. As Carole J. Adams suggests in her book “The sexual politics of Meat,” she explains how the human domination of other species (more specifically the animals we eat)… Continue Reading →

Environmental corruption: Hegemonic masculinities power to plague feminist environments

Eco-feminism can be looked at as the bonding of feminism and environmentalism, looking at the qualities of both through the lens of male domination. While men exist in the hegemonic masculinity bubble of sexism, socialized homophobia, and other regional or… Continue Reading →

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