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have look at R W Connell's influential text 'Masculinities" in which the author uses the concepts of hegemonic masculinities/emphasised feminities to show how some forms of masculinities are privileged over others and feminity gets to be defined as inferior in specific ways Connell starts...

1. It is a concept intoduced by Jackson Katz. He explains it as a form of fundamentalist reaction to the perceived attacks on masculinity especially those generated since the 1960s by the feminist critique of gender relations. His evidence includes the increased emphasis, in the several media...

try the process of elimination do they give you high status in your society or are they fairly everyday objects? can you feel and touch them or are they abstract ideas? is it it possible to live without any one of them?

he explains what he means in this way.. "by consistently asking these kinds of questions: (1) What is the structure of this particular society as a whole? What are its essential components, and how are they related to one another? How does it differ from other varieties of social order...