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Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney
Sociology Student Work Collection
Heavy metal music is experienced as a vibrant and empowering global community, but its history, structure, and practice reflect and recreate larger patterns of masculine hegemony within the metal world. As the metal ethos is centered around the practice and affirmation of social transgression, some are pushing the boundaries of metal itself to become a vehicle for critical social discourse around structural inequalities, including gendered hegemony.
Gender Inequality For Men And Women At Work, Justyce Edgar
Gender Inequality For Men And Women At Work, Justyce Edgar
Sociology Student Work Collection
This presentation demonstrates societies view of men's work and women's work. We define key concepts like masculinity and femininity and then analyze how these ideas penetrate our work force today. With this notion, we then discuss how the workforce takes advantage of women and their work.
Masculinity And Femininity Culture Jam, Jaynetha Robinson
Masculinity And Femininity Culture Jam, Jaynetha Robinson
Sociology Student Work Collection
Everybody knows that “changing social definitions of womanhood and manhood affect self-perceptions, opportunities, and behaviors” (T SOC Sociology of Gender 2017 [course syllabus]). What everybody may not know is that when we buy femininity and masculinity as products we diminish our true identity and strengthen gender stereotypes.
Recognizing The Real, Brooke Searight
Recognizing The Real, Brooke Searight
Sociology Student Work Collection
This considers the media's role in current social issues from a feminist perspective, including representations of femininity, masculinity, dieting, body image and contemporary topics.