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Unmasking Hegemonic Masculinity in Gay Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Investigating the investment of gay men in hegemonic masculine roles within gay culture, exploring historical origins and contemporary manifestations. Utilizing critical discourse analysis to examine identity, societal positioning, and challenges faced. Findings suggest lack of diversity, centralized gay subject positioning, and implications of consumptive materialism. Helpful suggestions for research process and maintaining focus provided.

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Unmasking Hegemonic Masculinity in Gay Culture: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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  1. Are you ready for your close-up, Mister Hegemony?

  2. Research Question What is the investment for gay men in hegemonic masculine subject positions within gay culture? Origins and Hegemonic Masculinity

  3. Literature Review Highlights • Victorian Era & The Rise of Industrial Capitalism • Incitement to Confess • The Discursive Birth of the Homosexual • Categorization and Social Relegation

  4. Literature Review Highlights • The Summer of ’69 • Post-Stonewall & Commodification of Gay Culture • Homonegativism and Quality of Life

  5. Theoretical Lens “Nothing has any meaning outside of discourse” (Michel Foucault, 1972)

  6. Research Methodology Critical Discourse Analysis DNA Magazine 10 articles and 2 advertisements

  7. Findings • Lack of Variation – Identities and Masculinities • Centralized Positioning of the Proper Gay Subject • Hegemonic Masculinity – Attitude and Body

  8. Conclusion • Foucauldian Governmentality • Illusions of Escape from Otherness • Indignities and Access • The Gay Self and Consumptive Materialism • Western Heteropatriarchal Society’s Whipping Boy

  9. Helpful Suggestions • Keep a PRPJOURNAL to record thoughts, ideas, and feelings throughout the day • Use INDEX CARDS to arrange copious bits of information re: Literature Review • DO NOT PANIC if the words do not come readily – frustration is part of the process • Be FEARLESS and PASSIONATE • The PRP is a SOCIAL JUSTICEPROJECT

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