Open AccessNEGATIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN NOLLYWOOD: A READING OF IKECHUWKU ONYEKA’S MR AND MRS
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Onyeka Ebekue
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international review of humanities studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2477-6866
DOI - 10.7454/irhs.v4i1.140
Subject(s) - masculinity , construct (python library) , gender studies , ideology , feminism , sociology , power (physics) , mainstream , narrative , reading (process) , social psychology , psychology , politics , law , political science , literature , art , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language
Masculinity is a social construct that defines man‟s social relation within the gender hierarchy in society. Over the years, gender has narrowly been screwed to depict feminism which in itself struggles towards negotiating social power for the feminine gender. However, in doing this, feminism has subtly achieved an ideological imaging of the male as brutish, savage, demonic, power obsessed and most of all domineering. This has gradually become a mainstream narrative through which masculinity is understood. Thus the average man is seen as potentially violent, power obsessed, chauvinistic and domineering. The implication is that masculinity in itself is a social havoc. This forms the core of this research. The researcher in this work disputes this negative construct of the masculine model as a social menace. The researcher argued that while the afore mentioned negative traits exist, that they are individual social disorder which in itself does not represent masculinity as a generic social construct. The researcher used the qualitative research method with particular resort to the case study approach for his data collection and analysis. The research is hinged on the „Social role theory of Sex‟ .