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.