Date of Award
Spring 5-18-2017
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
First Advisor
Christine Stevens
Abstract
Masculinity is observed here as it relates to authority, and as it functions within discourse surrounding the American penal and health care institutions. Understandings of race and gender are dictated by beliefs that masculinity can be “achieved,” or functions as a value within society. This piece works to stress that masculinity is instead a worldview, which assists in the distinguishing and perpetuation of dichotomy tied to plays of superiority and inferiority. It is for this reason, when recognizing masculinity within a capitalist global context, abolition becomes a necessary approach, when attempting to confront masculinized authority and institutions.
Recommended Citation
Martin, Andre, "Masculinity: Understanding Authority Across Institutional Settings as Social Control" (2017). Global Honors Theses. 46.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/gh_theses/46
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