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| WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN |
The study is entitled What It Means To Be A Man: Rethinking Masculinity
In Popular Chick Lit “The Boy Next Door” by Meggin Cabot. It is aimed at
investigating the construction of male characters in the novel and the
ways it is viewed through the perspectives of masculinity. The data are
collected from the novel of The Boy Next Door in a form of textual
evidence that related to the characterizations of the male characters.
The study employs descriptive qualitative approach and textual analysis
method to make a systematic description of the collected data.
To
analyze the data, theory related to masculinity by Beynon (2007),
Connell (2003) and Cohen and Wilber (2009) are employed. The findings
show that male characters are constructed through four categories i.e.
looks, popularity, masculinity and romantic tendency. Ii is also found
that the masculinity of the male characters is divided into two types,
the hegemonic masculinity and feminized masculinity. Therefore, it is
concluded that the two concepts of masculinity are influenced by
cultural factors.
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