300470 International Summer School on Men and Masculinities (S) (SoSe 2009)

This International Summer School is a pilot seminar trying to provide for international as well as German students a challenging topic in English language. The summer school will provide an insight into the steadily spreading research field of masculinity research in a gendered perspective, its main directions of knowledge production (research directions, theories and research findings, public discourses, and politics), and will allow space for students to articulate their research interests.
Students are invited to address their research interests and ideas for papers they want to contribute to Prof. Dr. Ursula Mueller via mail or speaking hour (see homepage).
A more detailed seminar description will be disseminated at the beginning of the summer term.

The time schedule of the seminar will be: 3rd August to 7th August on a daily basis

Bibliography

Recommended literature:

Connell, R.W./Messerschmidt, James W., Hegemonic Masculinity:
Rethinking the Concept, in: GENDER & SOCIETY, Vol. 19 No. 6, December 2005 829-859, available in pdf:
http://history.anu.edu.au/files/documents/Connell&Mess_HegemonicMasc.pdf

Hearn, Jeff/ Kimmel, Michael/ Connell, R.W. (eds.), Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, Thousand Oaks, Ca. 2005: Sage
(well researched and up-to-date international overview, covering a broad range of research fields)

Holter, Øystein Gullvåg and Nordic Council of Ministers (eds.), Can men do it? Men and gender equality – the Nordic Experience, Copenhagen 2003: TemaNord

Men and Masculinities in Europe (Keith Pringle, Jeff Hearn, Harry Ferguson, Dimitar Kambourov, Voldemar Kolga, Emmi Lattu, Ursula Mueller, Marie Nordberg, Irina Novikova, Elzbieta Oleksy, Joanna Rydzewska, Iva Smidova, Teemu Tallberg, Hertta Niemi). London 2006: Whiting&Birch

European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities. National and Transnational Approaches (Jeff Hearn, Keith Pringle and members of CROME). Houndmills 2006: Palgrave Macmillan
(the two publications of the first EU-funded research on men and masculinities in 12 European countries)

Morgan, David, Discovering Men, London 1992: Routledge; a still worth reading pioneering book introducing Men and Masculinities as an issue for social theory

United Nations, The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality. Expert Group Meeting. Organized by DAW in collaboration with UNDP, ILO and UNAIDS, 21-24 October 2003
Brasilia, Brazil, documents available at
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/men-boys2003/

Journals:
Men and Masculinities, Sage
NORMA. Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies, published by NIKK: Nordic Gender Institute; some articles of NORMA are published on the NIKK homepage