COMM 2P20 Lecture Notes - Popular Culture Studies, Masculin Féminin, Michel Foucault
20 Nov 2012
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Import contribution of 1960"s second wave feminism was to open up discussion of gender and sexuality. This paved the way for two other key developments in popular culture theory: studies of masculinity, queer theory. Also note the influence of michel foucault, especially his history of sexuality, three volumes. Masculinity studies (or men"s studies) emerged out of the 2nd wave feminism in the 1970"s and. Masculinity: a social construct, a set of norms and values defining what it is to be a man" to be. One part of a binary opposite: masculine vs. feminine, masculinity vs. femininity. That is masculine" has little intrinsic meaning in the absence of its opposite. Take a minute to note down some attributes associated with masculine vs. feminine. If springsteen is an icon of masculinity, what does this tell us about constructs of masculinity in. Contemporary perspectives on masculinity allow for competing conceptions of what it is to be a man.
