Lecture: 2 hours/week
Seminar: 2 hours/week
The methods of instruction for this course will include some or all of the following:
- Lectures
- Small group exercises
- Class discussion
- Computer lab work
- Audio-visual materials
- Guest speakers
- Introduction to Masculinity
- Theorizing Men & Masculinity
- Gender Binaries & Essentialism
- The Social Construction of Indigenous & Black Masculinity
- Colonialism, Nation State & Patriarchy
- Industrialization, Families & Masculine Roles
- Bro Culture: Socialization & Bonding
- Sports, Athletes, and Violence
- Masculinity, Drag Queens, and LGBTQIA2S+
- Popular Culture and Violent Masculinity as a Cultural Norm
- Online Masculinity: Big Tech, Gamers, and Trolls
- Prison Masculinities and Violence as Social Control
- Masculinity and Social Movements
At the completion of the course, the successful student will be able to:
- Analyze the historical development of major streams of sociological theories with regards to masculinities;
- Evaluate masculinity, toxic masculinity, and hegemonic masculinity;
- Analyze the relationship between masculinities and social structures such as patriarchy, colonialism, globalization, and neoliberalism;
- Examine why masculinity functions as a constitutive power;
- Identify how masculinity functions in instutional and everyday spaces such as the family, labour force, politics, education, sport, prisons, online gaming, and culture;
- Examine the social construction of racialized masculinities, with a focus on the commodification and dehumanization of black and indigenous bodies;
- Evaluate how masculinities are historically and culturally constituted across time and space;
- Analyze why masculinities intersect with gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and class;
- Examine transforming economic conditions between traditional and modern societies as it relates to roles and norms of masculinity;
- Evaluate different forms of masculinities as relational;
- Evaluate masculinities as hierarchical.
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Evaluation will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. Evaluation will be based on course objectives and may include quizzes, exams, critical essays, literature reviews, term/research projects, oral presentations, multi-media presentations and a personal family and age project. The specific evaluation criteria will be provided by the instructor at the beginning of the course. Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation in the course as part of the student’s graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the Instructor Course Outline. An example of one evaluation scheme is:
Students may conduct research with human participants as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans. |
The following are examples of textbooks that may be assigned for this course:
Connell, R.W. (1995). Masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Connell, R.W. (2000). The Men and the Boys. Berkeley: University of California Press.
The following are examples of readings that may be assigned for this course:
Carrigan, Tim, Connell, Bob [R.W.], & Lee, J. (1985). ‘Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity.’ Theory and Society, 14(5), 441-604
Connell, R.W. (2001). ‘Studying Men and Masculinities’. Resources for Feminist Research, 29/1/2: 43-56.
Donaldson, Mike. (1993). “What is Hegemonic Masculinity?” Theory and Society vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 643-657
Hearn, Jeff (2004). ‘From Hegemonic Masculinity to the Hegemony of Men.’ Feminist Theory, 5(1), 49-72
Dyer, Richard (1997). ‘The White Man’s Muscles.’ In Race and the Subject of Masculinities, edited by Harilaos Stecopoulos and Michael Uebel, 286-314
Ouzgane, L. & Coleman, D. (1998). ‘Postcolonial Masculinities.’ Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2(1).
Marriot, David. (1996). ‘Reading Black Masculinities’. Mac an Ghaill, Máirtín (ed). In Understanding Masculinities. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Messner, Michael A. (2007). “White Men Misbehaving: Feminism, Afrocentrism, and the Promise of a Critical Standpoint” in in Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport. Albany: State University Press of New York.
Clark, Laura Hurd and Maya Lefkowich. (2018). ‘I don’t really have any issue with masculinity’: Older Canadian men’s perceptions and experiences of embodied masculinity’. Journal of Aging Studies. Vol. 45