Hegemonic Masculinity: A Social Pattern as Portrayed in Literature.

Name of Author : Dr. T. Menaka

Abstract: The utterance masculinity and its command entrusted to the meticulous community in the human gender by the social order endowed them advantage. Their preeminence ended them to acquire a stand of superior sex which undermines the other. The prerequisite condition not prevails in a particular zone but the whole world practices it in freewill. It is defined by sociologists as hegemonic masculinity. The persona of man as robustness, valour, identity, aggression, sagacity, reliability, liability, uprightness, self-sacrifice, ambition, control and venturesome complicates the gender and they strive hard to encompass those qualities for fulfilling the expectations of the society.

Keywords : Hegemonic Masculinity, social set up, weaker sex, gender gap, typeset of male

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