Submitted as a final paper on December 3, 2012, to Kathi Weeks in partial fulfillment of Debates in Women's Studies (WS601). "What is it?" was the lingering question after our tenth week together in class, during which we focused on pornography. The question led to major

Submitted as a midterm paper on October 2, 2012, to Kathy Weeks in partial fulfillment of Debates in Women's Studies (WS601). That our lives are performatively constituted and socially constructed should cause alarm, since patriarchal and aggression-laden linguistic markers both describe and construct men and masculinity. Taking