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Hi Natalie,
I just read an article that addresses this issue that I would recommend: "The New Men's History and the Peculiar Absence of Gendered Power: Some Remedies from Early American Gender History" by Toby L. Ditz in Gender History vol. 16, no. 1, April 2004.
I take issue with some of what she says (or doesn't say: she seems to ignore that masculinity is also based on men controlling and posessing other men), but otherwise it's really good.
air
Thanks air. I do think studying masculinity can yield valuable insights into societies and histories - many things previously invisible suddenly become clear. Except of course you are putting men in their usual place at centre stage.
I think it would be dangerous to change the terminology, and less honest. Under the heading "gender studies" there can be a variety of courses, including Women's Studies, and whatever one chooses to call the study of masculinity and masculine gender study. Both would be valuable, and should be available to all students. But to alter the name of a field of study in order to be 'more accessible' trickles down into the alteration of language within that field of study. Feminism has come to far and affected the social-political realm to such a degree - but the active theory and ideological vocabulary is still is marginalized and regularily degraded.
We cannot afford to 'give it up' now. In my view, the forthwith adaptation (discuss in the article) would be a great and horrible transgression. I would view it an aggressive / supressive manuveur.
"Except of course you are putting men in their usual place at centre stage."
Exactly. Although I would edit that to be "putting straight men in their..." Which is part of the reason I'm more interested in male sexuality than male gender.
My courses at uni were called 'Women's and Gender Studies' which encompassed the whole shebang. I also took some courses specifically on masculinity which I found very interesting.
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