MASCULINITY IN HISTORICAL DRAMA : A STUDY ON THE FILM THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH

Author Name: Mridul C Mrinal

Volume/Issue: 01/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: http://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/04.2021-71924593/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. MA English & Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Periye, Kasaragod, Kerala, India

ABSTRACT

The conceptions of Gender and Sex were studied and comprehended as single entity from the dawn of Modernity. Any discourses distinguishing both Gender and Sex were scare or none until 1955, when sexologist Jon Money proposed a distinction of Sex and gender as terminologies. In present scenario, the distinction is recognised in the areas of Humanities and Social sciences. Previously it was common to identify the gender with sex of the organism. The idea of Gender is mistaken with Sex. The individual is a male by sex but female by gender it indicates the social and biological contexts of the individual.

Key words: Masculinity, Historical drama, Gender, Sex, Modernity