hegemonic masculinity in ‘a streetcar named desire’

Blanche

________ acts as social commentary on the treatment of women who owned their sexuality and rebelled against patriarchal norms.

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.

‘ Blanche

________ is French for white- archaic noun for turning something white.

Blanch

Allan and ________ are victims of hegemonic masculinity, and are linked to each other through language and symbols.

Stanley

________ represents masculinity in transition- propensity for violence and valuation of his own pleasures and desires.

Mitch

________ enforces norms of sexual purity- it is not only alpha males who reproduce misogynistic ideologies which oppress women.

male dominated domains

In ________, anxieties over masculine power and position are defined and expressed through physical, and often sexualised, acts of violence.

Stella

________ does not recognise (or can not bear to leave Stanley) her subservience and entrapment.

Sexual dominion

________ and violence were the key characteristics of the ideal New American Man.

Hegemonic masculinity

________= a practice that authorises and encourages male domination, therefore justifying the subordination fo woman and non- hegemonic males.

Stanley

________ does not conform to the hegemonic masculinity defined by Connell- usually applicable to heterosexual, white, and middle- class men.

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.

Stella

________ is Stanleys complement and polar opposite.

Hegemonic masculinity

________ is displayed through Stanley and Steve whereas non- hegemonic masculinity is displayed through the effeminate Mitch and the homosexual Allan.

Stanley

________ symbolised the world of masculinity and fierce individualism.