Sexuality and Society

SEXUALITY
AND SOCIETY

Table of Contents
Masculinity theory- ...............................................................................................................3
Feminist Theory- ...................................................................................................................4
Sexuality theory of Michel Foucault......................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

Masculinity theory-
The hegemonic theory of masculinity was given by R.W. Connell's he stated this theory also as
the theory of gender order. This theory helped them recognize the multiple masculinity across
time and the culture of the individual. It is stated as a practice that tells the position of men that
how dominating they are and how they position themselves in the society and justifies the
difference between male and female population and emphasizes on other ways of becoming a
man. This theory helps to understand why and how the male population maintain a dominant role
over women and other identities of gender which are now referred as feminine in the society.
This theory was derived from cultural hegemony as a nature of sociologist concept which was
given by Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci. His theory helped analyze people about the relations
of power among the society in their social class. The term hegemonic refers to the dynamics of
cultural activities and claims of social groups who sustains and maintains a position in a
dominant way in a social hierarchy. Nevertheless this aspect embodies a form of organization
which motive is to perform for the benefit of social activities and has been changed and
challenged socially. The beginnings of this theory represents the concerns about what a man do
to earn bread for this family it was shown as a form of manhood which included factors such as
to provoke anxiety and differentiate on the basis of violence and brutal, naturally pseudo and
those measures which were contradictory psychologically which made them prone to crisis and
made them sustained socially and rich economically. Many people who were sociologists
criticized the definition of this theory, they understood it as a character of fixed type which was
analytically limited to them because for them it excluded the difference of complexity and the
forms of competing masculinity. It also faced some consequences which included the hierarchy
of gender, the configurations of masculinity in people geographically and the dynamics of
socially psycho and their types of masculinity. This theory argues that it is helpful for people to
understand the relations of gender which will help them to develop their span of life, criminology
and education which media also communicates on a mass level and the health of women and
men, also the structure of organization which works functionally. Critics of this theory have
always argued that it is not reproduced by itself and it ignores the aspects which are positive and
only covers those points which are flawed and too ambiguous to be practical in real life.
Everyday experience

This case is of an employee being harassed by a branch manager of a private bank in Jaipur. This
matter has come into light when the woman employee took this to social media to speak against
her senior. She also lodged a complaint of sexual harassment against the branch manager on
April 5, at the Mahila Thana Dholpur , Jaipur. The 23 year old employee of HDFC bank shared
this experience in twitter in which she stated that her branch manager told her that if she want to
survive in this corporate world then she have to do this or he ill destroy his banking career. After
this tweet the HDFC team looked into the matter and replied to her tweet stating strict action
would be taken if the person concerned is found to be guilty. The employee also told that she
was working at HDFC bank for about 4 years and she has faced this for the first time when the
new branch manager moved here about a year ago and she was afraid of telling this to anyone
else because the branch manager had told him to destroy her carrier. She told the news reporter
that the branch manager would call him to the locker room where there were no cameras and
their he touched me inappropriately again and again. After this she was informed that she has
been transferred to another department but did not receive any further notice about where and
when she was transferred. The police have registered a complaint and the investigation is going
on. The SHO of HDFC bank Yashpal Singh told that he will talk to bank committee for the
prevention of any further cases of sexual harassment at the work place.
Feminist Theory-
This theory extends the concept of feminism into various properties such as in theoretical,
philosophical and disclosure in a fictional way. It examines the roles of women and men socially.
It aims on the equality issues of gender which the people of different gender faces. This theory
focuses on interest, chores and experience in a different fields such as communication, studies of
media, psychoanalysis, developing the home economics, education, literature and philosophy.
Themes which are explored and analyzed includes discrimination, oppression, patriarchy,
aesthetics, history of art and the art of contemporary. Many people has the wrong belief that this
theory only focuses on women and girls and promoting women over men is their ultimate goal.
But the truth is this theory has always supported the world socially and in a way that supports
issues such as inequality, injustice, oppression so that they can promote the factors related to
justice and equality. Different people have different perspectives and this theory excluded the