This essay will explore the role that gender played in my father's life, both in relation to him, his masculine identity, and his experiences of fatherhood. My article is based both on the experiences I had growing up and a short interview I had with my father a few days ago. I will attempt to critically analyze the information I have obtained using the course readings and the different concepts covered in class regarding masculine identity and how it is affected both socially and socially. than cultural. Concepts that will be discussed are the father-child bond, masculine identity, gender policing and the division of labor between the sexes. I will also try to understand how these concepts apply to my father's life and shaped his masculinity and, therefore, mine. My father and I don't share the best relationship in the world and, in fact, we barely speak. This reminds us of a key concept discussed in the literature by Barry S Hewett in his article The Cultural Nexus of The Aka Father-Infant Bonding. In which he explained how close and intimate the Aka tribe fathers were to South Central Africa and the Northern Congo region. He compared the role Aka fathers play versus American fathers (p. 48). While studying the Aka people, he observed that Aka men spent a lot of time with their children and invested a lot in their lives and education. The Aka tribe lives in a strongly egalitarian society, where men, women and children are all respected. Their main hunting technique is the net in which all members of the aforementioned groups are involved. In his observations, Mr. Hewett observed that Aka fathers held, played with and fed their children much more than American fathers (p 4...... middle of article ......e the concept of work as an important determining factor in shaping a man's identity, men are expected to be good at doing "hard" work and women good at domestic work, because men are expected to go out and work to support their family, like my father said, and women stay at home and are home makers In conclusion, if that's one thing I've learned from this course so far. 'Now this mission is that masculinity is very difficult to define and there are several definitions that can encompass every man, because every man has his own definition of masculinity a man requires a lot of "hard work", no play. words, even though men are stereotyped as having to work hard to provide for their families, the kind of work I'm talking about is not manual labor, it is emotional and psychological labor to realize the ideals of what society dictates you to be, as well as your own ideologies of being a man.