Read the below listed texts and answer the reading guide questions
Smith, Daniel J. 2006. “Ch6 Love and the Risk of HIV: Courtship, Marriage & Infedility in Southeastern Nigeria” (p.135-153). In Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship & Companionate Marriage. Eds. Hirsch, Jennifer S. and Holly Wardlow. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [3.2. Smith_2006_Love and the Risk of HIV.pdf ]
How do changing patterns of courtship and marriage in southeastern Nigeria affect men’s and women’s sexual behavior? (Consider gendered patterns of sexual behavior, intimacy and condom use, and pleasure and STD risks)
How are men’s extramarital infidelity safeguarded? (Consider safe space for this, male bonding, social meaning of men’s virility).
How have the new concept and practice of love marriage, as well as stereotypical perceptions of HIV early on, impacted on HIV risk prevention?
Watch the below listed visuals and answer the questions
YouTube, “Gender Double Standards in the Middle East | Maryam Salman | TEDxRCSIBahrain” (9:36)
What are examples of gender double standards?
Which double standards resonate with your own society’s?
Why do you think double standards are good or bad?
YouTube, “The Sexual Double Standard” (4:18)
What do we mean when we say that there’s a “sexual double standard” for men and women?
Where did the double standard come from?
What are the cultural, economic, and educational aspects of sexual double standards?
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Readings
Kimmel, Michael S. 2013. “Introduction” (p.1-29). In Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era. New York: Nation Books.
Visuals
YouTube, “The Mask You Live In – Trailer” (3:09)
YouTube, “Jackson Katz: Violence against Women?It’s a Men’s Issue” (17:40)
Why are white men like Rick in this reading feel deeply they are screwed, betrayed, and discarded? Why are they even angrier than ever before in our recent history? With whom are they angry? Why? And why now? (Consider “aggrieved entitlement”)
What are traditional ideals of masculinity in America? (p.9, 15) What’s American Dream got to do with white men’s sense of failure, humiliation, and anger ? what Kimmel calls aggrieved entitlement? (p.18, 21-25, Consider American Dream of upward mobility)
What is your thoughts on the below claim, made by Faludi and cited in Kimmel, about the eroding white men’s footing?
American men have lost “a useful role in public life, a way of earning a decent and reliable living, appreciation in the home, respectful treatment in the culture.” They’re feeling emasculated?humiliated. The promise of economic freedom, of boundless opportunity, of unlimited upward mobility, was what they believed … the ground on which American men have stood for generations. Today, it feels like a carpet being snatched from under their feet” (p.13).
How are men with lower middle-class background feel about the current socioeconomic and political situation and how their perceptions converge with or diverge from the ones of middle-class and upper-middle-class men? (p.22-25)
What does the phrase, “Be a Man,” impact on American manhood?
How are male-male bonding (close relationships, empathy, emotions) are perceived in the U.S.?
How is respect related to violence? What does it have to do American hyper-masculinity?
What does the title, the “mask” you live in, mean?
Why is it problematic to frame violence against women as a women’s issue?
How does the dominant system reproduce itself?
How does language shape our cognitive structure in which male batterers become invisible and victims become the targets of blaming?
How do angry white men possibly become violent against women? What are solutions?
