Rhetorics of Masculinity

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This class explore masculinities from a communication perspective that centers it as socially constructed, performative, contextual, cultural, and negotiated. We will examine how the discourse of masculinities changed over time, the time periods that heralded those discursive changes, how certain masculinities emerge as hegemonic, and how different identity markers affect the construction of masculinities. Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement.