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Revolution in masculinity - Coggle Diagram
Revolution in masculinity
Males lost the complete authority over women and children
They began to understand themselves as a group
Rise through money and destabilization of status-based masculinity
Masculinity a part of ratial ethnical identity
Global commerce influenced much more tragedies than comedies
It influenced as "contamination" of the trader, who loses his masculinity
Controversies
sexuality of the Restauration found to be offensive, encouraging unchaste behaviour
negative
pursuit of pleasure: celebratory of human sexuality
positive
only celebration of male sexuality
negative
Court influence
Charles II: philandering made legendary and acquiring mistresses fashionable. Courtiers imitated the king
Royalists: sexually desirable
Plays frequently featured
rakishness
Social rank is anyway estimated. Even writers tended to distinguish themselves
Capitalism destabilized distinctions: merchants gained more power
emerges modern category of
gender
Third gender: sodomites
dominant heter. masculinity could define itself against it
prostitutes
COMEDY
which solves everything with sex
exemplify masculinity's conflicts and variety of possibilities more than tragedies.
pornography
relations men/boys tolerated; s.times imaginary relations through an unfaithful wife in the middle
Planned marriages on stage as in real life
swift from
paternal patriarchy
to
fraternal patriarchy
equality
of all men in public sphere
masculinity defines citizenship
private sphere is feminine
masculinity is
defined through sexuality
a man is made from sexual desires, inclinations, skills
Revolution had consequences over the
king's authority
: it became an important debate
Filmer: a king rules his people like a father in his family (he's thus a small king)
Locke
Separates pubic sphere from private: role of king is a
contract
; husband comes from
nature
authority over children is shared though
Women on stage
As people can choose monarch, women may begin to choose husband
men could marry for money as much as women could
this does not grant equality: socially and sexually
later on in the century...
In Congreve's works contractarianism emerges over absolutism
FOPS
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Patriarchalism is no longer taken for granted
unique opportunity to take part to the
public sphere
unique high-profile employment
Association with prostitues
while men gained admiration
one of the most talked/written-about issues of the Restoration
It is required
consistency of gender
of the actor and of the character
Natural rights: self ownership, ownership of products of one's labour.