Andrew Jackson's Firsts. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, but he was the first in many other ways. Introduction. Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain.
Pulling the word apart, hegemony can be loosely defined as a sort of process which acts to maintain the dominance of a culture within a particular context. Further, masculinity is the characteristics correlated with being male.
Hegemonic masculinity is the concept of the week, and this will be the basis of analysis as to why masculinity subordinates feminity, some of its origins and some anecdotal examples from day-to-day life.