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Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, And The Sexual Stigmatization Of Women, Brian N. Sweeney
Masculine Status, Sexual Performance, And The Sexual Stigmatization Of Women, Brian N. Sweeney
Faculty of Sociology/Anthropology Publications
Collegiate hookup culture advances ideas of masculinity but contradicts notions of appropriate feminine sexuality. Drawing on focus group and interview data with college students, I examine how a group of class- and race-privileged fraternity men face dilemmas as they enact a group constructed masculinity focused on sexual performance and the objectification of women. I employ a symbolic interactionist framework to illustrate how men, attentive to peer status yet anxious about the sexual stigmatization of women, draw on cultural ideas about appropriate feminine sexuality as they account for their approaches to sex and women (both with whom they interact sexually and …
College Graduation: It's A Big Deal, Raksmeymony Yin
College Graduation: It's A Big Deal, Raksmeymony Yin
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College graduation is a big deal for everyone. It’s especially important to me as a graduate of the Philadelphia public schools, as a child of a low-income family, and as a first-generation Cambodian immigrant.