Speaker: Dr. Stefan Horlacher
This talk offered a critical survey of where Masculinity Studies are after roughly forty years since their inception. It examines the concept of masculinity itself and interrogates the almost mythological notion of masculinity in perpetual crisis. Drawing on psychoanalytical as well as deconstructive, narratological, intersectional and comparative approaches, the presentation discussed how these frameworks contribute to a better understanding of masculinity, i.e. what ‘they allow us to conceive’ but also what ‘they hinder us from conceiving.’