As early reading literature was created as a stepping stone for children to be able to read and enjoy books themselves, some writing can be seen as toxic for the reader which can ultimately impact the overall well being of individuals within their society. Specifically,…
In this modern society, men are stereotyped and hassled for being men. If men dress or even act different, they are most likely exposed to insulting or degrading terms. In America, most people can dress and act differently without being verbally abused. In other countries,…
A lot of what has been written and perhaps a lot of what will be written, will be written with the use of some form of technology. Language is the most obvious example, it is with the use of this technology that we understand, interpret…
Modern American and British fiction have been altered due to the contributions of Ernest Hemmingway. Through his minimalistic writing style, Hemmingway instigated a conversation about masculinity, war, and the individual perspective of time. By addressing convoluted themes such as masculinity, Hemmingway created a shift in…
Set at such a pivotal point in time on the edge of the sexual revolution, Ian McEwan’s novel On Chesil Beach explores the presentation of masculinity and gender norms/expectations during the early 1960’s, in which it is set. Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire,…
From the moment African American men are born a target is placed on their back and that target programs them to behave in a certain fashion. They are told from a young age to not show emotion, affection, and to “get over it, ” because…
These constructed notions of masculine identities were broken soon when these men came face to face with the dehumanizing horrors of the war. The psychological torture due of the trench warfare was something that they had never witnessed before. One poem that describes the breakdown…
The most interesting aspect of this promoted masculine identity is that it convinced the men to enlist for war in huge numbers but the question that remains is why? To answer this one could look at how these masculine duties were perceived by the men…
For decades, feminist and masculinities scholarship has sought to parse the many forms of benevolent and harmful masculinity and to find ways to culturally encourage the former and diminish the latter. Masculinities research has therefore examined and re-examined the various constructions, tropes, power dynamics, features,…
In looking at representation of female voices in the popular canon of First World War poetry, what needs to be established first are terms such as ‘masculine’, ‘masculinity’, and the difference between ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and the ‘masculine hegemony’. The root of these terms lies in…
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