Female Masculinity By Audrey Allyn Skylar Smith Masculinity
Female Masculinity By: Audrey Allyn & Skylar Smith
Masculinity Dominant masculinity Naturalized relation between maleness and power Excessive masculinity Focused on black bodies, Latino bodies or working class bodies Insufficient masculinity Figured by Asian bodies or upper class bodies Why is it that we have trouble defining masculinity but have no trouble recognizing it?
Female Masculinities “Female masculinities are framed as rejected scraps of dominant masculinity in order that ml masculinity may appear to be the real thing” Why is masculinity most associated with men? What do you think female masculinity is?
James Bond Which characters would you consider masculine? James Bond M Agent Q Miss Moneypenny
James Bond cont. Agent Q Seen as interpretation of queer and dominant regimes M Chastises him for being a misogynist and a sexist Exposes sham of Bond’s own performance Most convincingly performs masculinity These 2 characters provide a remarkable representation of absolute dependence of dominant masculinities on minority masculinities
Tomboys Extended childhood period of female masculinity “Female gender deviance more tolerated than male gender deviance” (pg. 358) Is this because, as a society, we fear it is a threat to masculinity? As soon as puberty hits, the full force of gender conformity descends on girls Why is this?
The Bathroom Problem “Ambiguous gender, when and where it does appear, is inevitable transformed into deviance, thirdness, or a blurred version of either male or female” (pg. 365) Women’s bathrooms an arena for enforcement of gender conformity Sanctuary of enhanced femininity Why is femininity easily impersonated or performed while masculinity seems resistant to imitation?
SNL Skit “It’s Pat” Produced laughs by sidestepping gender fixity Pat’s partner had a neutral name Everything Pat did or said could be read either way Why, as a society, are we committed to maintain a binary gender system? http: //w`ww. youtube. com/watch? v=Vw. T 1 kp 0 C 3 S s
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