Connel; Gilmore, Schaucer; Oakley; Benyon

• Benyon: new gender identities (hegemonic&emphasized to complicit&assertive)

• gender fluidity challenges traditional

• media representations of gender (Gilmore media stereotype men ‘the provider, protector & impregnator’ → emotions & sex objects)

• social construction through still traditional socialisation (Oakley)

• Biological approach (Socio-biologists, aggressive & mild)

• traditional gender identities persisting + new identities less common in some parts

  • Dominant (Connell): hegemonic masculinity, emphasised femininity
  • Physical strengths and rational & accommodate needs and interest of men

Evaluate the view that male identities are changing.

Evaluate the view that female identities are changing.