La masculinité défiée dans les banlieues

As we said in class when we talked about Suburban Men, gender is something performed and performances are constructed throughout the things you do. For its part, masculinity means : « the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men » (word reference online dictionary). Masculinity changed a lot over time according to different circumstances like political, social or cultural changes, actually men's behavior and lifestyles were influenced a lot by suburbia. Masculinity was challenged in that it had to conform the new way of life in suburbs.

True, men were always seen as the breadwinner for their family, indeed fatherhood is a fundamental to understand masculinity in suburbia because men gave sense to their lives by attaching notions like respectability, obligation, and responsibility to masculine identity (Bret E. Carroll writer of American masculinities a historical encyclopedia).