not the whole male/female thing (one look at any CC class I teach will show the guys tending to drop at twice the rate the gals do, so this article is seriously dealing with an old-news problem). What I want to know is, what politically correct asshat decided they should redefine hegemony to mean “any pervasive idea?”
This isn’t the first place I’ve seen it… left-leaning academic books are full of the term lately. But I want to know out of which obscene corner of the MLA conference this abomination crawled, so that the perpetrator can be mocked like a Said wannabe.
convivialdingo
/ May 27, 2009Hrm, a search “performs hegemonic” using Google Scholar brings up a whole slew of *fascinating* results that begin around 1990.
Evocative best sellers include:
“Finding space in the field of masculinity: Lived experiences of men’s masculinities”
“LIVING THE PARADOX”
“Doing Drag A Visual Case Study of Gender Performance and Gay Masculinities”
and
“TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF INTELLECTUALS”
JimDesu
/ May 27, 2009Any pervasive idea that remains inconvenient must thereby be the remnants of an inherently corrupt regime based on outdated societal constructs designed to foster ever-more rigid hierarchical control of society via inherently corrupt memes like “masculinity” that thwart the establishment of a value-free paradigm reflecting social justice by blind adherence to socially conditioned societal partitions — didn’t you know that?!
(must go brush teeth now)