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Lecturer(s)
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Sloboda Zdeněk, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Introductory information. Basic gender terminology. Main concepts of the study of masculinity: esentialism, patriarchy and hateronormativity. 2. Men and feminism. Men's Studies and Critical Men's Studies. 3. Socialization. 4. Masculinities within our culture. Masculinities in other cultures. 5. Men in the family, fatherhood. Male friendships. 6. Men and the labour market. 7. Army and Sports. Male body. Violence and men's criminality. 8. Men and/in the media. 9. Men's sexuality. Homophoby. 10. Homosexual identities. Coming-out. Prostitution and pornography. 11. Gay movement. Men movement. 12. The issue of bisexuality. Masculinity and trans & gender-queer identities.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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The course offers social-constructivist and gender-critical perspective on men, masculinity, men's identities and representations. We will acquire knowledge on historical and disciplinary background of the filed of studies on masculinity (sometimes called as Men's Studies or Critical Men's Studies). Other topics that will get students familiar with are: socialisation a boy's childhood, men as father and breadwinner, men at workplace, in the media, mein in sports, military and war. Specific topics would be violence and sexuality, incl. non-heterosexual men's identities.
Students will acquire knowledge according to course sylabus. They will also - analytically work with scholarly texts; - prepare their own topical presentation; - critically evaluate the existing literature; - be acquitanced with the contemporary approaches in cultural and gender studies, and will be able to connect and contrast them with other disciplines; - within a pluralistic perspective develop their sensitivity and reflexifity towards cultural and human diversity; - develop skill to apply scholarly methods to analyse current cultural and media issues concerning the topic of the course; - be able to create connections among domestic cultural issues and international and global relations, in the given era.
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Prerequisites
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The course serves as an introduction to the men's studies that currently represent a relatively new field of interdisciplinary research dealing with social, cultural and historical construction of ideas about masculinity and manhood. Program of the course will initially deal with general background of critical and gender theories. Further, the course will introduce specific areas where masculinity is (re)created and (re)produced: family and faterhood, labour market, sexuality, violence, sports and relation of men towards feminism and feminity.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Analysis of linguistic, Systematic Observation of Student
Active participation on seminars, presentation of own text analysis, final written test in the form of scholarly, structured and by knowledge funded essay.
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Recommended literature
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ARCHER, John. Male Violence. London & New York: Routledge, 1994.
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BORDO, Susan. The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and Private. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
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Bourdieu, Pierre. Nadvláda mužů, Praha: Karolinum, 2000..
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Kimmel, M. / Hearn, J. / Connell R.W. (2005). Handbook of studies on Men and Masculinity. Sage.
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Kimmel, M. / Messner, M. (1995). Men?s lives. Needham Heights: Allyn and Bacon.
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KIMMEL, Michael. The Gendered Society. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
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KUPERS, Terry. Revisioning Men's Lives: Gender, Intimacy, and Power. New York & London: Guilford Press, 1993.
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Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (ed.). (1996). Understanding Masculinities. Buckingham: Opne University Press.
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MESSNER, Michael. Taking The Field: Women, Men, and Sports. University of Minnesota Press, 2002..
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ŠMÍDOVÁ, Iva. "Muži v České republice podle jiných mužů" in: Sociální studia 7 (2002), s. 89-117.
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WHITEHEAD, Stephen. Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New Directions. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.
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