As a branch of gender history, histories of masculinity have often examined both social ideologies and subjective male identities in a framework that defines them against the feminine. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars studying masculinities in a variety of fields, including literature, history, art history, sociology and philosophy, to explore some of the forms of „otherness“ against which ideas of masculinity have been defined over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the question we hope to uncover a fuller and more complex picture of what, historically, socially and culturally, it means to be a man.
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