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This 6 page paper discusses male hegemony: what it is, its history, and the challenges presented to it by gay men, poor men, and men of color. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and I believe are still marginalized in many situations; e.g., far too many women are continually denied access to the highest levels of business and government. In other words,
the idea that global society is dominated by a "masculine hegemony" is not a feminist fantasy, but real. This paper discusses male hegemony, how it became dominant, and the challenges
presented to it by men who dont meet the criteria of hegemonic masculinity. Masculine Hegemony Men have always held power because of their physical strength, but in the
17th and 18th centuries, changes in the law made their dominance legal: "Discrimination against women ... became part of the new structures that emerged, and ... these new structures ...
affected the lives of more and more people in more an more ways, so discrimination against women became more and more widespread, more and more accepted and more and more
difficult to combat..." (Rowan-Campbell). Thus gender discrimination was written into the law, and as the West became industrialized and work moved out of the home, a major shift
in thinking took place: men were to shoulder the economic functions of the household and women the domestic (Rowan-Campbell). In other words, he went out to work and
she stayed home and managed the house, watched the children and did other work "suitable" for women. Thus, the masculine hegemony was born in the laws of the 17th
and 18th centuries and has gained strength ever since. There are many reasons for this that we could explore (women isolated from one another by class and custom,
for example, so they couldnt join together to fight for change); in fact, "... under the guise of being protected by men, women in fact became a means of maintaining
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