Working out masculinity : negation of effeminacy by homosexuals through a muscular body.

• Main Author: Lim, Andrew Sze Khew.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social deviance
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51646
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The binary distinction of male and female gender forms the social reality of normative heterosexuality. Earlier studies based on “…psychoanalysis normalizes heterosexuality, whereby to be one sex is to necessarily desire the other” (Stevi Johnson, 2010). Gay men with their sexual orientation towards...