Assignment Number 3 Discussion/Writing Assignment Kilmartin Chapter 1 (7-22) Jordan Chapter 1. My mother's son. (13-26)

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 1-29-08 Psychology of Men 270 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

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Please staple the questions to your answers or write out the questions as well as the answers. Having the questions available in the small group will facilitate discussion.

1.	Recall a video, film, or fiction that exemplifies the abuse captured by the power and control wheel. Describe the story and how it exemplifies the power and control wheel. (Guest lecture, Ed Heisler).
2.	A. M. Kein (1993) conducted an ethnography of male bodybuilders and, in his book Little Big Men, attributed to them such traits as narcissism, homophobia, hypermasculinity, and fascism. Explain how you would understand these traits from an essentialist position. From a social constructivism position. (lecture)
3.	Antifemininity has been described by many theorists as a central organizing principle in which all other masculine social demands derive. What do you think might be two examples of social demands derived from this organizing principle? (There aren't just two correct answers. There are a number of apt answers. The point of the question is to ask you to think deeply about what this assertion might actually mean). (K7)
4.	Describe a situation in which you have observed or experienced masculine gender pressure--the enforcement of cultural norms of masculinity through expectations, rewards, and social sanctions. (K11-12)
5.	Define patriarchy. Give an example from your experience. (K 13-16)
6.	According to Gerda Lerner (1986), what are "leading metaphors" and what do they do? Give an example from your experience. (K 13)
7.	Explain how the contradiction between collective power and individual senses of powerlessness comprises a core issue in men's studies. How can, according to Kimmel, powerlessness be real but not true? (K 14-16)
8.	What relative privilege do you possess by virtue of your gender and ethnicity? (K16-18)
9.	Describe one of the theories in kilmartin that you see illustrated in the first fourteen pages of Jordan's biography. (13-26)