Dr. Zhaf
For registration, please email Dr. Zhaf at mahrouzhaf@gmail.com
Mondays at 18:30 -19:50 Tehran time, beginning February 27 (8 Esfand, 1401) and then every other week on March 13,(Norouz Holidays), April 10 (21 Farvardin, 1402), April 24, May 8, May 22, June 5, and June 19.
Course Description: As Donald Moss mentions in his book, Psychoanalysis and Masculinity: Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Man, images and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. This course addresses the never-ending effort of men to shape themselves into the perceived notion of masculinity. The complexities of male gender identity are examined from several psychoanalytic vantage points. The course explores the meaning of masculinity and how maleness is gendered by looking at the representation and construction of masculinities in different movies. There is not one version of masculinity, but multiple masculinities influenced by positionality and social location. As such, we will be conducting an intersectional investigation into how masculinity is embodied and lived out in culture and cultural products, which in this course are movies. Lastly, the system of masculinity (and its dominant form) is not created in isolation. We will explore how notions of femininity interact and influence masculinity and vice versa.
Persepolis Psychoanalytic 