Men and Masculinities: Intersectional and Comparative Perspectives (Teil 1) - Detailseite

This project course explores how masculinities are socially constructed, culturally expressed, and politically contested across Western and non-Western contexts. It examines the diverse ways men experience power, privilege, and vulnerability in global settings. Drawing on feminist, queer, postcolonial, and intersectional theories, the course engages with empirical studies of men’s lives in relation to labor, migration, care, militarization, sexuality, and violence.

Students will analyze how masculinities are produced and negotiated within institutions such as the family, workplace, state, and media, and how they intersect with race, class, religion, and citizenship status.

Students completing Part I of this project seminar will gain an in-depth understanding of the literature on men and masculinities through an intersectional lens. Those continuing with Part II in the Winter Semester 2026 will conduct independent research and write a project paper on migrant masculinities from an intersectional perspective. Students can write their papers in German and in English.

• Yurdakul, G., & Korteweg, A. C. (2021). Boundary Regimes and the Gendered Racialized Production of Muslim Masculinities: Cases from Canada and Germany. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 19(1), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2020.1833271
• Özvatan, Ö., Neuhauser, B., & Yurdakul, G. (2023). The ‘Arab Clans’ Discourse: Narrating Racialization, Kinship, and Crime in the German Media. Social Sciences, 12(2), Article 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020104 
• Elliott, K. (2015). Caring Masculinities: Theorizing an Emerging Concept, Men & Masculinities, 19(3), 240-259. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X15576203
• Bridges, T. S. (2009). Gender Capital and Male Bodybuilders. Body & Society, 15(1), 83-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034X08100148