Explore the impact of masculinity on sustainability and learn to redefine it for a better future through engaging multimedia content.
This course dives into what masculinity means today, how it shapes our lives, and how we can rethink it for a better, sustainable future. It’s all about questioning old ideas and crafting new ones—together.
Learn about common perceptions of men and masculinities, and how to think beyond them for a more sustainable future.
Masculinity, as shaped by both men and women, has a profound impact upon the world in which we live and functions as a core problem for social sustainability. Yet few people stop to question the forms of masculinity that have been passed to them, let alone construct a more conscious alternative.
Via video, audio and text, Future Masculinity will help both men and women understand how masculinity functions in contemporary society, and how it can be re-imagined for a sustainable future.
Many of society's problems are related to the social construction of masculinity: How is masculinity defined? How is masculinity asserted within society? These questions are answered in this course via a number of key themes: history, sexuality, relationships, fatherhood, archetypes, and spirituality.
By questioning the social construction of masculinity within our everyday lives, we can make massive changes to society encouraging a more sustainable way of living that can be enjoyed by men, women, children, and the world in which we live.
Participants will be able to identify the social construction of masculinity.
Participants will be able to mobilize concepts such as patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity.
Participants will be able to identify the existence of multiple masculinities.
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Dr Joseph Gelfer is a researcher in the area of men and masculinities. He has a BA from the University of Bristol (UK) and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Joseph's books include Masculinities in a Global Era (Springer Science+Business Media, 2014) and Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (Routledge, 2009). Some...
While this course has some interesting content, in no way does it reflect a representative range of contemporary research concepts in this field. The course is essentially a restatement of the material that is free to access on the presenter's personal blog. This same content is presented as "bonus material" at the end of the course as a "handy pdf". Having read the pdf and compared it to the free website, I can see no reasonable justification for charging for this content. In addition, the video material is a basic "selfy" headshot of the presenter talking to the camera, with fairly poor audiovisual quality, and as such adds nothing to the course. I will be requesting a refund.
The course has given me some great insights into all aspects of masculinity. Thank you
Yeah, a lot of it is lifted from the free ebook but it's nice to have an audio/video version which I can put on in the background so I can replay any parts of the book I missed.
Dice que no va a ser muy acad'emico el curso, y que la gente quiere ejemplos modernos, pero es demasiado academico. Ademas que el instructor solo ve al camara no es muy dinamica, podria mostrar unos dispositivos o algo mejor
yes, i am enjoying it. thank you:)
So far this is really well done. Great structure and clarity of delivery. looking forward to the next section.
Interesting. Provides nothing practical. Much to academic.
I really enjoy hearing about the contexts of masculinities
Great information to challenge current perspectives on masculinity.
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Jonathan P.
The instructor seems knowledgeable about his subject and does a great job providing us with his references. It could have been nice to have visual support (slide) to support the verbal narration.
Now, I wish to disclaim that I am factually profane to the subtle arcane of gender study and arguably alien to the whole doxa prevalent in social studies faculties.
That being said, I must admit that I am pretty skeptical about the whole post-modern interpretative process of deconstruction/reconstruction so trendy among academics in social studies which necessarily leads to an even more subjectivist conclusion.
In my humble opinion, the postulates proposed in this course seem to obfuscate the quantitative empiricism that dominate psychology for the past hundred years in the anglo-saxon sphere, nowadays cross-validated by research in biology and neurology, for the sake of an idealist's axioms and normative conclusions.