https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/GENS5097?type=COREThe course is designed to introduce students to the scholarly investigation of the social and culturalarticulations of masculinity in the past three decades from various feminist perspectives. Our aim is to explore what studies of masculinity drawing on feminist scholarship have to say about what itmeans to be positioned/imagined as man from the 1980s to date. The course is also meant to help studentsexplore the major debates in some classic essays that explore the various forms of hegemonic masculinity and the changes to the concept itself. Apart from their critical stance on hegemonic masculinity, the essays also suggest possible ways of exploring the reconfiguration and reconceptualization of manhood. The works range from the early years of men's studies focusing on the concrete social and historicalinstitutions of male chauvinism to contemporary acts of revalidating areactionary hegemonic male identity. The latter includes various anxietiesabout 'demasculinization' of men attributed to feminism or any activism or scholarlyendeavor critical of entitlements, or the attacks against non-binarypresentations of masculinity in anti-gender politics. In order to see thevalidity of the readings, students are encouraged to discuss similarperformances or events in their own social/cultural context - based on someactual data brought into class.