Masculinity Case Studies Samples For Students

In Kimberly Pierce’s 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, the true-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank), a transgendered man who attempts to pass for a biological man in rural Nebraska, is told. Over the course of the film, Brandon (born Teena Brandon) tries to fit in with a group of male friends he encounters, and continues to pose as a man in order to woo her friend Lana (played by Chloe Sevigny). However, by the end of the film, his friends find out about his anatomical femaleness and is raped and murdered by them. The film is commonly ...

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Short final summary
My high scores were 6 and 7 as shown in the table above indicating that holistically I am a team oriented, consultative, value-based and participative leader. The lowest score of 3 in autonomy confirms that I very much consult with the team members as I do not impose decisions on them.

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Two best fit-in countries: Greece and Guatemala
The basis for choosing the two countries as best to fit in is their cultural orientations concerning leadership as evidenced by their scores. Greece and Guatemala have cultures that endorse leadership values similar to my leadership style. As ...

The 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, directed by Kimberly Peirce, tells the story of transgendered man Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank, in an Oscar-winning performance), who was born Teena Brandon, a woman. In his attempts to ingratiate himself with his male friends and pursue a relationship with a girl named Lana (Chloe Sevigny), his anatomical differences are discovered, and he is raped and murdered by those same male friends. The film examines the concepts of homosexuality, transgender issues, and identity in a way that few major studio films typically do. However, Boys Don't Cry presents a remarkably gender-binary worldview for its subject matter, as Brandon ( ...

Culture can be expressed best in the complex interactions of values, attitudes and behavioural assumptions of the society. Culture therefore, is the characteristics of particular groups of people defined by everything from knowledge, religion, social habits, art, law, morals and any other capabilities and character acquired by a person as a member of a given society. For a given culture to be an important concept in the management studies, we should be able to understand the culture concept and familiarise our self with it. (Francesco and Gold 1969).Therefore in this paper, I have discussed various dimensions of managing culture in order to ...

The Geert Hofstedes dimensions, Fons Trompenaars dimensions and Edward T. Hall's cultural dimension will greatly help in this case. In regards to Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory, the six dimensions of value namely: collectiveness, power, uncertainty avoidance, temporal orientation, masculinity and indulgence will greatly help in analyzing the advertisement in Brazil. Each one of these dimensions will have an opposite contrast to help in revealing the positives and negatives of advertisements.
Skyscraper sized hoardings and massive billboards line up in the streets of Sao Paulo waving to the pedestrians and motorists caught up in traffic jam. This is just a ...