TOUGH+GUISE

="TOUGH GUISE"- JACKSON KATZ=


 * 1) What is the "Tough Guise"?
 * 2) How are boys socialized into the "box"?
 * 3) What points are being missed re:"kids killing kids"?
 * 4) What was the message made about depression?
 * 5) How are girls complicit in maintaining the "Tough Guise"?
 * 6) What are the three most convincing pieces of evidence presented to support "the media is successfully socializing men into more violent masculinity"?
 * 7) What other places in our society provide different and more desirable or healthy models of male behaviour?

= = =**MOVIE: GOOD WILL HUNTING** - How do Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's characters display "Tough Guise"? How does it negatively affect them? When the finally "break out of the box", how does it positively affect them?=

ASSIGNED READING: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING NOVELS THAT DISCUSSES THE TOPIC OF MASCULINITY.

Archer, J. (Ed).(1994) Male Violence. London:Routledge Garbarino, J. (1999). Lost Boys:Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them. New York:Free Press Faludi, S. (1991). Backlash:The Undeclared war against American Women. New York:Crown. Stoltenberg, J. (1999). Refusing to be a man: Essays on sex and justice. Portland:Breitenbush Books Dworkin, A. (1997). Life and Death. New York:Free Press.