Miseducation of american boys – Constructions of Gender in Literature

Wife Beater Thursday!

I had conversations with students who casually referred to our classmates’ attire as “wife beaters,” but did not support wife beating.

Redefining Masculinity- are you brave enough?

by Ella Deignan The social stigma of men’s masculinity, created and upheld by lockerroom talk, paternal pressures (mental+physical abuse), and women’s dependency on men leave many men with little space, internally and externally, to show vulnerability. In The Atlantic’s The Miseducation of American Boys, Peggy Orenstein writes on multiple factors that lead to boys definingContinue reading “Redefining Masculinity- are you brave enough?”