{"id":24634,"date":"2010-06-17T11:09:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24634"},"modified":"2016-07-12T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T03:34:08","slug":"the-daintification-of-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/17\/the-daintification-of-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daintification of Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy J. and Andrea F. sent in a really interesting project by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanvincent.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Vincent<\/a>.\u00a0 Vincent recreates masculine items and ideas with feminine crafts in order to upset the gender binary.\u00a0 He explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My work explores gender permissions and the challenges that arise from straying from the prescribed norms. It questions the qualities of gender by considering what constitutes masculine and feminine. It critiques stereotypical gender mediums by creating &#8220;masculine objects&#8221; using &#8220;feminine processes&#8221; such as crochet, sewing, and applique.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/oDwk9CXF.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24640\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/oDwk9CXF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/oDwk9CXF.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/oDwk9CXF-500x331.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/125.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/a>More examples of his work at his <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanvincent.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy J. and Andrea F. sent in a really interesting project by artist Nathan Vincent.\u00a0 Vincent recreates masculine items and ideas with feminine crafts in order to upset the gender binary.\u00a0 He explains: My work explores gender permissions and the challenges that arise from straying from the prescribed norms. It questions the qualities of gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,8070,55,2096,2087,212,250,1890,108],"class_list":["post-24634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-artliterature","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-alcohol","tag-guns","tag-smokingtobacco","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24634"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69117,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24634\/revisions\/69117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}