Genered' Culture
4 important questions on Genered' Culture
Mary Ann Clawsonn (1999) examines in When Women Play the Bass why in the few cases that women instrumentalists are part of a mixed rock band, they almost always play the bass.
Can you give an answer to this question by connecting it to a particular theory?
- Most important reason: bass is easy to learn.
- Women: often join band at a later age, and want something they can pick up quickly.
- Men: don't want to play it, because it is so easy and looked down upon and rather play guitar.
- (+ it's good for the audience to have a women in the band).
- Queuing theory or EMPTY FIELD theory.
- Women can only take up positions when men are not (or no longer) interested in them (occupational careers).
Can you explain how in When Women Play the Bass (Clawson, 1999), both doing gender and gender as cognitive structure are used by men and women to justify women playing the bass?
- Cognitive structure.
- Fixed gender roles are used to justify why women often play the bass.
- Doing gender (in action).
- Gender roles are actively used to praise or downplay why women play bass.
- Examples.
- Men play guitar because the guitar takes the lead (leader → masculine).
- The bass provides support for the guitar (support the husband/man → feminine).
- The guitar is about the mind (men are rational, women emotional → masculine).
- The bass is about the rhythm, women are better at feeling (feminine).
In precarious sexuality (Mize & Manago, 2018) the focus is on gender in relation with status.
Masculinity is the societal norm and serves as reference point. In what ways does this shine through for men and women?
- Men: Hegemonic masculinity.
- Being tough, autonomous.
- Sexual orientation: attracted to women.
- E.g., the strong action movie hero or rock star.
- Women: Emphasised femininity.
- Complements hegemonic masculinity.
- Gentle, compliant.
- Sexual orientation: being attractive to men.
- E.g., the 'cheerleader', football wives.
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In precarious sexuality (Mize & Manago, 2018) the focus is on gender in relation with status.
Can you explain the paradoxical finding of this article in relation to dominant gender status?
- High-status leniency.
- Men that fall into the hegemonic masculinity category have the highest status and therefore can get away with more.
- Precarious status.
- The most privileged category has to remain pure and therefore comes strict guidelines and heavy policing.
- I.e., straight men enjoy the benefits of the highest status, but have less room to manoeuvre when doing gender.
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