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Men and Masculinities 2 7 Mar Studying Men: Scholarship PART A: Men’S Positions in Gender Tutorials Commence Faculty of Arts School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication Men and SOC350 Masculinities Subject Outline: Autumn 2011 Subject Coordinator & Lecturer Dr Michael Flood phone 4221 4063 e-mail [email protected] office Building 19 Room 2014 consultation times Tue. 10.30 – 12.30 Wed. 2.30 – 4.30 Other times by appointment SOC350 Subject Schedule Wk Begins Lecture Topic Tutorial Topic Deadlines & Dates 1 28 Feb PART A: Men’s positions in No tutorials this week gender relations Overview of the subject and an introduction to men and masculinities 2 7 Mar Studying men: Scholarship PART A: Men’s positions in gender Tutorials commence. Please on men and gender relations bring subject guide (and reader) Overview of the subject and an to tutorial. introduction to men and masculinities 3 14 Mar Men’s lives changing Studying men: Scholarship on (Bring reader to every tutorial.) men and gender 4 21 Mar PART B: The social Men’s lives changing Student‐led tutorials commence organisation of masculinities Theoretical frameworks for understanding men and gender 5 28 Mar Making men: The social PART B: The social organisation of construction of masculinities masculinities among boys Theoretical frameworks for and young men understanding men and gender 6 4 April Intersections of Making men: The social Critical Summary Essay 1 due masculinity, race, and construction of masculinities (April 7) ethnicity among boys and young men 11 April MID SESSION RECESS MID SESSION RECESS No lecture or tutorials 7 **18 April Intersections of Intersections of masculinity, race, masculinity and sexuality and ethnicity 8 **25 April No lecture No tutorials (No lectures or tutorials on Monday 25th or Tuesday 26th) 9 2 May Intersections of Intersections of masculinity and masculinity, class, and sexuality work 10 9 May Men, feminism, and Intersections of masculinity, class, gender politics and work 11 16 May PART C: Diverse and Men, feminism, and gender shifting men politics Alternative masculinities 12 23 May Changing men: Gender PART C: Diverse and shifting men Critical Summary Essay 2 due activism, policy, and Alternative masculinities (Thursday May 26) programming 13 30 May The future of men Changing men: Gender activism, Research Paper or Reflective policy, and programming Journal due Friday June 3rd 6 June STUDY RECESS STUDY RECESS 11 – 23 EXAMS EXAMS June PERIOD PERIOD **NB: Lectures/Tutorials that fall on the following Public Holidays will be cancelled: Week 7 ‐ Friday 22nd April (Good Friday) Week 8 ‐ Monday 25th April (Anzac Day) Week 8 ‐ Tuesday 26th April (Easter Monday – substituted holiday) 2 SOC350: Week‐by‐week subject guide and Schedule of readings The following provides a guide to the tutorial topics and required readings for each week. Further, suggested readings are listed at the end of each week’s topic. These are particularly useful places to start in reading for your written assessment. The further readings also will be used for your Critical Summary Essays. I have tried as far as possible to place in the Library’s Short Loan system those further readings which are not available in journals, that is, chapters in books. PART A: MEN’S POSITIONS IN GENDER RELATIONS Part A of the subject introduces the field of scholarship on men, masculinities, and gender. How have men’s lives changed, and what does this mean for gender roles and relations? Why should scholarship on gender include the study of men and masculinities? Week 2 Tutorial: An introduction to men and masculinities In this week’s tutorial, we will run through the subject administration, get to know each other a little, and begin to familiarise ourselves with scholarship on men, masculinities, and gender. What is masculinity? How are idealised images and imperatives of masculinity constructed? REQUIRED READING Kimmel, Michael. (2004). Masculinities. In Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson (Eds.). Men & Masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia, Vol. II (pp. 503‐507). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio. Whitehead, Stephen M., and Frank J. Barrett. (2001). The Sociology of Masculinity. In Stephen M. Whitehead and Frank J. Barrett, (eds). The Masculinities Reader (pp. 1‐26). Cambridge: Polity Press. Hearn, Jeff. (2007) Masculinity / Masculinities. In The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (pp. 390‐94). Ed. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle. Taylor & Francis. FURTHER READING Beynon, John. (2002). What is Masculinity? Chapter 1 in Masculinities and Culture. Buckingham; Philadelphia: Open University Press. Connell, R. W. (1995). The social organization of masculinity. Chapter 3 in Connell’s Masculinities (pp. 67‐86, 249‐250). Sydney: Allen & Unwin. [UOW: 155.332/10] Connell, R. W. (2000). New directions in theory and research. Chapter 2 in The Men and the Boys (pp. 15‐36). Sydney: Allen & Unwin. [UOW: 305.31/45] Connell, R. W. (2000). Debates about men, new research on masculinities. Chapter 1 in The Men and the Boys (pp. 3‐14). Sydney: Allen & Unwin. [UOW: 305.31/45] Kimmel, Michael S., and Michael Messner. (1998). Introduction. In Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Messner, (eds). Men’s Lives. New York/Toronto: Macmillan/Maxwell (4th edition). [UOW: 305.31/22] Kaufman, Michael (1994). Men, feminism, and men’s contradictory experiences of power. In Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman, (eds.), Theorizing Masculinities (pp. 142‐163). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [UOW: 305.32/10] 3 Schrock, Douglas, and Michael Schwalbe. (2009). Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts. Annual Review of Sociology, 35: 277‐295. Journals: Men and Masculinities Journal of Men’s Studies Psychology of Men & Masculinity Further works on men and masculinities: http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/bestreading.html#Heading1 Academic websites: http://www.xyonline.net/links#a3 4 Week 3 Tutorial: Scholarship on men and gender How does scholarship on men and masculinities fit into Gender Studies? Is this “Men’s Studies”, and should it be the ‘equivalent’ of Women’s Studies? What should be its relationship to feminism and women’s movements? Is Gender Studies anti‐male? Who should teach critical scholarship on men and gender? REQUIRED READING Pease, Bob. (2002). The Politics of Studying Men. Chapter 1 in Men and Gender Relations. Melbourne: Tertiary Press (pp. 1‐10). Martin, Shelley. (2007) Women’s Studies / Gender Studies / Feminist Studies. In The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (pp. 635‐39). Ed. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle. Taylor & Francis. FURTHER READING Flood, Michael. (in press). Men as Students and Teachers of Feminist Scholarship. Men and Masculinities (in‐press, accepted February 2010). [Copy available from author] Gardiner, Judith Kegan. (2002). Introduction. In Judith Gardiner, (ed.) Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions. Columbia University Press. Gardiner, Judith Kegan. (ed.). (2002). Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions. Columbia University Press. Includes; 1. Robyn Wiegman, Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory. (pp. 31‐59) 5. Sally Robinson, Pedagogy of the Opaque: Teaching Masculinity Studies. (pp. 141‐160) 6. Harry Brod, Studying Masculinities as Superordinate Studies. (pp. 161‐175) 7. Judith Newton, Masculinity Studies: A Longed For Profeminist Movement for Academic Men? (pp. 176‐192) Messner, Michael A. (2000). White Guy Habitus in the Classroom: Challenging the Reproduction of Privilege. Men and Masculinities, 2(4), April. Richardson, Diane, and Victoria Robinson. (1994). Theorizing Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Masculinity: The Politics of Naming. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 1(1): 11‐27. Robinson, Victoria. (2003). Radical Revisionings?: The theorizing of masculinity and (radical) feminist theory. Women’s Studies International Forum, 26(2): 129‐137. Further references: http://mensbiblio.xyonline.net/mensstudies.html#Heading1 5 Week 4 Tutorial: Men’s lives changing How are men’s lives changing? How might conceptualisations of masculinity changed over time? What shifts have taken place in the social, political, and economic dimensions of gender relations? How have gendered expectations of men shifted? Is gender inequality finished? REQUIRED READING Flood, Michael. (2008). Bent Straights: Diversity and flux among heterosexual men. In Intimate Citizenships: Gender, Subjectivity, Politics. Ed. E.H. Oleksy. Routledge. Romano, Andrew, and Tony Dokoupil. (2010). Men’s lib. Newsweek, September 20. Rosin, Hanna. (2010). The End of Men. The Atlantic, July / August. FURTHER READING Beynon, John. (2002). Masculinities and Culture. Buckingham; Philadelphia: Open University Press (Chapters 5 and 6 in particular). Connell, R. W. (2002). Gender Relations. Chapter 4 in Connell, Gender (pp. 53‐75). Sydney: Allen & Unwin. [UOW: 305.3072/4] Connell, R. W. (2006). Globalization, Imperialism and Masculinities. In Michael Kimmel, Jeff Hearn, and R.W. Connell, (eds.). The Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [UOW: 305.31/53] Institute of Development Studies. (2008). Papers from Politicising Masculinities: Beyond the personal. [Available by searching at http://www.siyanda.org/.] Includes; Men And The Search For Gender Equity: South African Conversations With My Sister / Robert Morrell. ‘Brothers Are Doing It For Themselves’: Remaking Masculinities In South Africa / Steven Robins. Are Men Interested In Engaging In The Struggle For Gender Justice And Broader Social Change ‐ Or What Would Make Them Interested? / Margrethe Silberschmidt. 6 PART B: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION AND
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