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Executing White Masculinities: Lessons From Karla Faye Tucker, Joan W. Howarth
Executing White Masculinities: Lessons From Karla Faye Tucker, Joan W. Howarth
Scholarly Works
Gender is a constant struggle. Throughout our lives, we contend with multiple unstable and oppositional social constructions of gender, or hierarchies of masculinities and femininities. Knowing, or trying to know, who is male and who is female, and how men and women should act, is a major part of the structure of our identities, our societies, and our democracy. These gender questions are not separate from race or class; together for example, they shape what is expected of a poor young White man or a middle-class, African American grandmother. Racialized and class-based, gender helps to tell us who is frightening, …
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought by Elizabeth V. Spelman