Masculinity Test 1

In Chapter 4, Dwight’s glasses, what is the principle impediment to equity in the U.S today?

The combination of racism and sexism faced by Black men

Chapter 4, Dwight’s glasses, uses which sociological idea to discuss how individual identity can be forged across several influencing factors?

Intersectionality

In chapter 5, class ceiling, how does Reeves characterize male deaths from drug overdose, suicide, and alcohol?

Deaths of despair

This term refers to a Roman military parade in which conquering generals paraded captured loot through Rome and dressed like the god Jupiter

Triumph

In chapter 2, Working Man Blues, which economic trend is identified as a major factor in men losing ground in the labor market?

The rise of automation

Reeves main argument in chapter 3, Dislocated Dads, is:

The role of mothers has been expanded to include breadwinning as well as caring, but the role of fathers has not been expanded to include caring as well as breadwinning.

In Chapter 3, how does Reeves describe the traditional contract between mothers and fathers?

A primary caring role for mothers and a primary providing role for fathers

This scholarly concept is “a perceived patronizing Western attitude towards Eastern societies that is used to justify Western imperialism”

Orientalism

True or false: The toga virilis was an article of clothing reserved exclusively for male Roman citizens.

True? But also false? I think women were also forced to use them as punishment sometimes

Give the best definition for the word arete:

manly excellence (Ancient Greece)

How should we translate the word kurios, which was important in defining manliness in ancient Athens?

Master or Lord

2 examples of how masculinity in Athens differed from that in Sparta

Sparta: Courage had everything to do with being a brave military soldier, so being a coward was the worst label.

Athens: Had more to do with leading the household, since men weren’t as preoccupied with military training. This meant being a head of household over women, children, and slaves.

Erastes

Older love, active, dominant

Eromenos

younger, beloved, passive

sex

genital stimulation for pleasure, procreation, or otherwise; the organs used for such activities; a way to classify individual animals based on their possession of certain genitalia

sexuality

how people, cultures, or societies organize sex

gender

the state of being male or female (typically with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones); the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

essentialism

phenomena are natural, inevitable, universal, and biologically determined.

social constructionism

society uses symbols to construct meaning

biocultural interaction

the process by which our bodies respond to our cultural environment and vice versa

sexual dimorphism

idea that male and female are different

othismos

the push in greek battle

trope

break down of formation in greek battles, literally meaning “the turn”. Led to retreat and brief moments of mass slaughter