Essays on Masculinity

The makeup industry has grown extensively over the last ten years as a result of men becoming more interested in the cosmetic industry. Men are beginning to eradicate traditional views that makeup is solely for the use of women. South Korea is a prominent factor...

In this essay, to look further into the presence of hegemonic masculinity in sport we focused on the sport of wrestling and collected data from a singular individual who is a student-athlete. We interviewed Kane Jajieh, a 4th-year student at the University of California, Los...

In today’s modern society, men can misinterpret the meanings and intentions behind their actions, which can in turn, lead to severe consequences towards the ideologies and expectations, placed on men by others. These beliefs include their masculinity, strength, domination and emotions of anger and hatred...

James Joyce’s complex and riveting novel Ulysses features many parallaxes and deep complexities within it. Themes of paternity and maternity issues, self-identity, and heroism are some composites that makeup Ulysses. In the first set of chapters, we meet multiple men of Dublin. The male characters...

Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976) came only a few years after Small Changes, and yet the context of masculinity is much more hidden. The novel consists of five stories from Kingston’s family, Chinese myth, and Kingston’s own story. The opening chapter of the...

In Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, various emotions are displayed by the characters including some serious topics like colonialism, tradition, repression, pride, and masculinity. The protagonist Okonkwo, a self-made man, experiences first hand what pride ultimately leads to: Death. His ultimate demise represented the...

“Man produces evil as a bee produces honey” (Golding). Humans do what they do base off of uncontrollable factors or instincts. Sigmund Freud classifies this as the Id side of men; acting on impulses and desires. Throughout Golding’s novel, the boys are seen acting based...

In this essay, I will discuss the representation and objectification of women in the media. And Dominant Masculinities in media not only in sports as we discussed, but it can take other forms. The trilogy of Fifty Shades of Gray that I chose for this...

“I’ve told missis often my opinion about the child, and missis agreed with me. She’s an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover. ” In the novel Jane Eyre, Jane is an orphan who is constantly being...

Jackson Katz’s film Tough Guise released in 1999 explores violence, media and the crisis in masculinity. The video begins with multiple media clips that reinforce the social construction of masculine identities. These certain identities have become harmful to male audiences because of the qualities that...