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Metal Music And Gender, Adam Fortney Jun 2021

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 Feb 2019

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2015

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.