'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities

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dc.contributor.authorClowes, Lindsay
dc.date.accessioned12/04/2017 11:54
dc.date.available12/04/2017 11:54
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis article begins by outlining some of the prior knowledges brought by undergraduate students to an introduction to gender studies class in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. I show that, at the beginning of the course, students clearly understand gender to refer to women and femininity, imagining femininity (but not masculinity) to be responsive to social change. I suggest that, in the face of these prior knowledges, it is important to focus on masculinity as performance, as a cultural artefact and one that is deeply harmful to South African men. Student experiences of this teaching and learning suggest that it offers possibilities for imagining men as allies and beneficiaries - rather than enemies - in the struggle for gender equity.en_US
dc.identifier.citationClowes, L. (2015). 'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 10(2): 149-162en_US
dc.identifier.issn1890-2138
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2731
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2015.1050863
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherScandinavian University Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the article found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2015.1050863
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPrior knowledgesen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectTeachingen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectMasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectMenen_US
dc.title'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinitiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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