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Sex Segregation, Masculinities, and Gender-Variant Individuals
Book chapter

Sex Segregation, Masculinities, and Gender-Variant Individuals

David S Cohen
Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach, pp 167-186
27 Dec 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814764039.003.0008

Abstract

Applied arts Architectural elements Arts Bathrooms Correctional institutions Correctional system Femininity Gender bias Gender discrimination Gender identity Gender studies Gender variant Hegemonic masculinity Human populations Interior spaces Masculinity Men Persons Population studies Prisons Rooms Sexual orientation Transgenderism Architecture Criminal Justice Criminal Law Law Social Sciences
This chapter examines sex segregation, masculinities, and gender variance by focusing on two separate theoretical concepts: hegemonic masculinity and the hegemony of men. It argues that the different forms of sex segregation that exist in the United States help create and perpetuate a particular form of idealized masculinity—what theorists call hegemonic masculinity—that exerts normative power over men to conform. Sex segregation also contributes to the dominance of men over women and nonhegemonically masculine men, a phenomenon that other theorists call the hegemony of men. In both ways, sex segregation contributes to an essentialized view of what it means to be a man—both in the attributes associated with an idealized manhood and in the power ascribed and available to some men over women and other men. This essentialized view of men and masculinity takes its harshest and most discriminatory toll on gender-variant individuals.

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