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Female Masculinity. By: Audrey Allyn & Skylar Smith. Masculinity . Dominant masculinity Naturalized relation between maleness and power Excessive masculinity Focused on black bodies, L atino bodies or working class bodies Insufficient masculinity
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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=VwT1kp0C3Ss