Hegemonic Flashcards
Using examples from course materials, discuss hegemonic masculinity and its ideological relationship with subordinated masculinities;
- Hegemonic masculinity forces men to regulate and police their identities in order to perform their maleness according to dominant standards.
- Men who are exposed as subordinate are punished and all others are policed such that they don’t deviate from the hegemonic standard.
- SELF REGULATING MECHANISM, PANOPTICON
Name TWO ways hegemonic masculinity police subordinated masculinities? (discuss the role of hegemonic mechanisms)
• COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY
schools
• WHITENESS - chinese men marked against standards of big industry
Name TWO ways embodiments and conceptions of masculinity vary among intersections (of race, ability, class, sexuality)?
- CHINESE MEN 3RD SEX, LEE, RACIAL CASTRATION ENG
* BLACK MEN, POLICE BRUTAILITy
Provide ONE explanation for how intersectionality affects what it means to be ‘masculine’?
- TRANS MEN – connel argues trans men aren’t necessarily counter-hegemonic
- Hegemonic masculinity acts upon the body but makes the body act as well
Name TWO ways racial microaggressions operate through cultural appropriation and invade spaces we inhabit such as academic institutions and public life?
- Dominant group rewarded
2. Marginalized group further marginalized
Provide TWO examples of this invasion and provide ONE definition of critical race theory to help illustrate your responses.
Critical race theory values narratives, stories, and experiential knowledge of people of color and is committed • to social justice and the end of racism and racial subordination.
Critical race theory considers how laws and institutional structures that appear to be “race neutral” can contribute to inequalities in education
Latina
FIRST NATIONS
Provide ONE definition of the term transgenderism?
Wilchins: “Transgender” referring to anyone who transgresses gender
i.e. cross-dressing, drag, transexuality, intersexuality, genderqueer
i.e. butch women, effeminate men
Both an identity and a descriptor/adjective
Transgressing something we are or something we do?
What is ONE advantage and ONE disadvantage of using such an umbrella term? TRANS
Advantage: A shared identity in which marginalized people may find solidarity, community
Instrumental to social, legal and political recognition
Ultimately a means of empowerment
Provides the vocabulary needed to include transgender issues in politics, culture
Prioritizes the experiences, struggles of postoperative male-to-female transsexuals
Neglecting other identities
Especially cross-dressing individuals who endure problems associated with child custody, job discrimination, hate crimes and punitive divorce precedents.
Analyze ONE positive example and ONE negative example of existing trans* representation in mainstream media?”
positive- laverne cox OITNB, negative - jared leto dallas buyers club
Provide ONE way the prison industrial complex operates both inside and outside of the criminal justice system?
When analyzing the school to prison pipeline it becomes clear that black bodies are regulated from an early age through educational institutions.
Zero tolerance policies – policies which expel students for even minor disruptions
Provide ONE definition of the prison industrial complex?
“Prison Industrial Complex” (PIC) is a term we use to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to what are, in actuality, economic, social, and political “problems.”
Provide THREE examples for how are aspects of the prison industrial complex are gendered, racialized, and sexualized? (ONE example for each theme)
RACIALIZED - INTERACTIONS WITH POLICE OFFICERS
SEXUALIZED - IN PRISON
GENDERED - IN PROHBATION RIOS
