SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Talcott Parsons, Hegemonic Masculinity, Gay Liberation
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Objectives: paradox of invisibility, hegemonic masculinity, patriarchy/promise, patriarchal economy, women, feminism, gay liberation. Suggests that masculinity is not to be talked about and it gives masculinity a sense of placelessness an ahistorical nature (we talk about masculinity/femininity as if its always been a thing) We think of invisibility in the public sphere as being a bad thing. There is (cid:448)alue i(cid:374) (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g (cid:858)(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le(cid:859) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374) stories. Dominant and subordinate groups can both at times be considered invisible/hyper visible. If we take an example of race the idea that racialized minorities become hypervisible of groups. Show how masculinity has been studied in different periods. Talcott parsons: normative case, complementary, heterosexual, binary, anxiety, when economic relations change those changing relationships would be associated with anxieties over men as subjects. If roles (cid:449)ere (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g, (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s roles (cid:449)ere (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g: shifts in the economy are also related to shifts in masculinity, ex. Gay men were the non-normative case of masculinity: hegemonic masculinity.
