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 brings to the fore the flaunting of sexual prowess, homophobia (misogyny and gender policing), compulsory heterosexuality, anti-authoritarian (and testing out) behaviour, emphasising physical strength (ie: muscles) and assertiveness.