________ acts as social commentary on the treatment of women who owned their sexuality and rebelled against patriarchal norms.
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Williams
________ explores moral problem concerning the extent to which societies are polluted by patriarchy, bestow power upon men, and allow them to exploit the vulnerable.
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‘ Blanche
________ is French for white- archaic noun for turning something white.
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Blanch
Allan and ________ are victims of hegemonic masculinity, and are linked to each other through language and symbols.
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Stanley
________ represents masculinity in transition- propensity for violence and valuation of his own pleasures and desires.
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Mitch
________ enforces norms of sexual purity- it is not only alpha males who reproduce misogynistic ideologies which oppress women.
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male dominated domains
In ________, anxieties over masculine power and position are defined and expressed through physical, and often sexualised, acts of violence.
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Stella
________ does not recognise (or can not bear to leave Stanley) her subservience and entrapment.
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Sexual dominion
________ and violence were the key characteristics of the ideal New American Man.
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Hegemonic masculinity
________= a practice that authorises and encourages male domination, therefore justifying the subordination fo woman and non- hegemonic males.
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Stanley
________ does not conform to the hegemonic masculinity defined by Connell- usually applicable to heterosexual, white, and middle- class men.
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Williams
________ was gay (meaning he embodied subordinate masculinity), allowing him to critique alpha male /hegemonic masculinity from the sidelines, seeing and identifying with its many casualties.
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Stella
________ is Stanleys complement and polar opposite.
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Hegemonic masculinity
________ is displayed through Stanley and Steve whereas non- hegemonic masculinity is displayed through the effeminate Mitch and the homosexual Allan.
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Stanley
________ symbolised the world of masculinity and fierce individualism.
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