Masculinity in Crisis in Churchill’sCloud Nineand Highway’sDry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
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This dissertation on Churchill’sCloud Nineand Highway’sDry Lips Oughta
Move to Kapuskasingexposes the traditional notions of masculinity on the verge of
crisis.The crisis of masculinityimplies the breakdown of heterosexism and the
decline of men’s power,authorityand conventional masculine roles.The male
characters, in both plays, involve in household activities and homosexuality, lose
economic power, and fail to perform conventional masculine roles. Female characters,
on the other hand, take previously male functions and enter into the mainstream of life
outside the home and become more rational, and psychologically and intellectually
confident and competent. The protected status of male masculinity was considered
single, unified and coherent gender identity constructed from a range of socio-cultural
possibilities. Because of the recent emergence ofnew gender and sexual identity, and
alternative masculinities the notions of white hegemonic masculinity is subvertedand
new gender, racial, sexual and ethnic identity is constructed.