WGS335H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gender Identity, Intersectionality, Masculinity

• School: UTM
• Department: Women and Gender Studies
• Course: WGS335H5
• Professor: Jeffrey May

Document Summary

Introduction to historical masculinities: what is masculinity, how masculinity is created in gender relationships, i have argued that masculinities are contextual, historically (temporally) and geographically produced. Today: historical precedents for contemporary masculinities, or where have our current ideas of masculinities come from", some histories show continuity and others show multiple emerging narratives (discontinuity, masculinities vary across time and space. History of intersectionality: remember the criticism of "universal womanhood" o. *all of these intersect in individual and group subjectivities o: secondary intersections: Chauncey: evolving, shifting, but based on continuous historical and geographical lines (from communal man hood to self made manhood to passionate manhood) He suggests a relatively homogeneous environment: racially and based on class. Simultaneous emergence of different ideas of masculinity: evolving but based on discontinuity (not necessarily linear) and in many ways bottom up. Heterogeneous environment of nyc: spatial development of "gay" masculinities different form normative masculinities.