INTL 3123: Global Masculinities

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

By integrating cultural, economic, political, and experiential perspectives, this interdisciplinary course explores the social construction of masculinities and its intersections with other systems of inequality such as race, class, sexuality, ability, religion, and nationality in the transnational context of North America. The course examines the historically situated configurations and transformations of masculinities primarily within the U.S. However, an overall global approach will be pursued to reveal the cross-border linkages between configurations of masculinities as spatial and temporal projects and processes. In other words, while it is impossible to think about men and masculinities as a single constituency or to cover all geographic areas of the world with their cultural and political specificities, we will explore the links between the local and global, the past and present, and across cultures in our analysis of masculinities in North America.