"Hegemonic masculinity" a more useful phrase for male power than "patriarchy"

Ellen Moody

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[This document is a note to the author's Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work — GPL.]

Tosh argues that "hegemonic masculinity" is a more useful phrase for male power than "patriarchy;" see his useful analysis, 44--98. Many men did beat their wives; see Maeve E. Doggett, particularly 34-99. On strong satiric nature of The Way We Live Now and the plainer nature of Is He Popenjoy? see Trollope, An Autobiography, 254-55 and 362. There are two areas where Brotherton does defy the norms of manliness: he is an open liar to his craven imbecilic mother, does no work whatsoever, and has no male associations (friends) in the public social world. Ruth apRoberts has argued the Marquis has syphilis (157-65). Again, the text we read nowadays is a bowlderized one; see Sutherland's introduction to IHP, xxiii-xxiv, his notes, and D., T. C. 'Victorian Editions and Victorian Delicacy', 251-53. Trollope has at least two more top men die syphilitic deaths: Lord Brabazon in The Claverings, Lord Eustace (married to Lizzie) in The Eustace Diamonds.

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