WGS 229 - Masculinities

Only relatively recently have scholars begun to decode how masculinities are constructed and enforced across time, space, and cultures. This class introduces students to some of this work, analyzing the ways in which masculinities – both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic – have developed in multiple cultural and historical milieus. While many of the readings focus on masculinities in the US, others attend to ways in which masculinities are produced in inter- and transnational contexts. In so doing, the course uncovers the ways in which masculinities are intertwined with larger discourses of gender, as well as those of race, sexuality, class, nationalism, and more.

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Social Science, Structures of Power and Inequality, Taylor and Lane