{"id":164,"date":"2014-05-07T10:58:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:18:31","slug":"his3931-modern-masculinities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/his3931-modern-masculinities\/","title":{"rendered":"WOH Modern Masculinities in Global Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WOH Modern Masculinities in Global Perspective<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next taught in Spring\u00a02016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">This course adopts a comparative historical approach to the study of masculinity, drawing from an interdisciplinary scholarship that has burgeoned in the last twenty-five years.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Important themes treated by this scholarship include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Political Roles\/Citizenship<\/li>\n<li>Nationalism\/Imperialism<\/li>\n<li>Patriotism\/War (men as protectors)<\/li>\n<li>Aggression, Violence, Sexual Practices<\/li>\n<li>Racial Ideologies (white racial supremacy, black nationalism, red power)<\/li>\n<li>Manliness\/ Moral character\/Honor\/Manners\/Gentility<\/li>\n<li>Homosociality and Male Bonding<\/li>\n<li>Heterosexuality, Procreation and Marriage<\/li>\n<li>Fatherhood\/Parenting<\/li>\n<li>Labor\/ Leisure<\/li>\n<li>Sports\/Bodies\/Sex<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality, Morality, Emotionality<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Representations (Literature, film, music, media)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"s1\">This course will examine as many of these themes as we can fit into fifteen weeks, ranging across time and taken from different national contexts.\u00a0 We will be interested in such questions as:\u00a0 In a given place and time, how did one learn to be a man?\u00a0 What were the most significant attributes of a good man? What role did various institutions and cultural practices (e.g. church, state, family, school, media) have in fashioning masculinity?\u00a0 What impact does race (or class or religion or nationality, etc.) have on ideals of masculinity?\u00a0 Do different racial groups\/economic classes have different notions of what ideal masculinity entails?\u00a0 How does masculinity relate to or figure in the development of colonialism, nationalism, war, politics, sports, entertainment, etc.?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Objectives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To introduce students to a vibrant inter-disciplinary field of scholarship<\/li>\n<li>To expand students\u2019 awareness of non-US cultures<\/li>\n<li>To foster an appreciation of the value in adopting a comparative historical approach to the study of masculinity<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Syllabus<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Most Recent] <a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/content-removed\/\">Syllabus.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/lnewman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}