Cecile Sandten

Kathleen Starck

Martina Schrader-Kniffki

Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dem Phänomen "kultureller Mischung" aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Um den Stand der Diskussion um den in Mode geratenen Begriff Transkulturalität in ihrer Heterogenität zu erfassen, stehen unterschiedliche Auslegungen und Gewichtungen dieses Konzepts im Sinne seiner Anwendbarkeit und kreativen Weiterentwicklung im Mittelpunkt. Die versammelten Beiträge liefern Fallstudien und decken gleichsam die Bereiche der Romanistik und der Anglistik/Amerikanistik sowie der Sprach- und der Literaturwissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln ab. Gemessen an der Vielfalt der Ausprägungen des Konzeptes und der Bereiche, in welchen Transkulturalität verhandelt wird, ist hier eine durchaus sinnvolle Verknüpfung bislang voneinander getrennter Disziplinen gelungen. Diese weisen auf eine Aufhebung institutionell festgelegter Fachgrenzen und damit einen weiteren Schritt in Richtung eines transdisziplinären Ansatzes der Diskussion des Konzeptes Transkulturalität hin.

Transkulturelle Begegnungen

Russell Luyt

This book explores how political institutions can challenge dominant and normative masculinities, guiding thinking instead toward a transformation of gendered power structures and general equality. Representing a range of relevant areas, the expert chapter authors provide various methodological and theoretical approaches applied to shifting gender meanings in cultural, national, and social contexts. Authors also represent a variety of cultures, contributing to the multi-perspective debate about how best to achieve gender equality in the real world. Among the topics discussed: Reimagining masculinities, their everyday practice and practical interventions Towards a feminist theory of male rape Political implications of challenging men’s everyday practices through domestic violence primary prevention work Men as allies: a case study of White Ribbon Australia Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents provides valuable insight into strategies for re-imagining male-dominated power structures and promoting gender equality.

Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents

The field of Cold War studies has recently undergone a cultural turn. Scholars from many disciplines outside – but increasingly also from within – diplomatic history have come to understand that, just as the Cold War was marked by a political and military competition, it was also characterised by a cultural one. As a result, it is now widely accepted that everyday culture was itself infused with political and ideological messages. The Cold War was ubiquitous. In an attempt to comprehend this complexity of the superpower conflict, as well as the way it affected and still affects people’s lives globally, this collection of essays brings together the work of scholars from nine countries and a wide range of academic disciplines. They explore strategies, mechanisms and legacies of the Cold War in areas as diverse as film, propaganda, conspiracy theories, education, music, comic books, architecture, fiction, autobiographical writing and theatre.

Cultural Representations of the Cold War

Between Fear and Freedom

Political institutions and practices such as the state, parliament, citizenship and nationality, the vote, the military, and the making and implementation of laws have traditionally been treated as if they were un-gendered and guided exclusively by objective reasoning and rationality. Rationality and reason, though, have been habitually ascribed to masculinity, a fact which has often been ignored in favour of the apparent gender-inclusiveness of the realm of politics. In contrast to this view, this book explores the interdependence of the construction of masculinities, on the one hand, and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as the state, citizenship, nationality and nationalism, democracy and militarism on the other. Illustrating the great amount of research activity in the field of political masculinities, the book offers many perspectives in its attempt to shed light on different modes of representing and constructing political masculinities across time and space. Findings from the fields of political science, history, media studies, literature, and film studies, as well as cultural studies, encourage an interdisciplinary debate of political masculinities in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

A Man's World? Political Masculinities in Literature and Culture

Gender in general, and masculinity in particular, might not be the first associations the mind produces when presented with the subject matter of the Cold War. More likely contenders would be the arms race or the ideological dichotomy of Communism versus Capitalism. However, recent research has established beyond a doubt that the politics and diplomacy of the superpower conflict were not only strongly influenced by beliefs about gender, but simultaneously also generated them. In fact, in a social climate where gender conformity was considered as crucial as ideological conformity, the conflict gave rise to what might be called distinctive “Cold War masculinities.” At the same time, the socio-historical context of the Cold War markedly shaped the cinemas of one of the main Cold War players, the United States, and of its close ally, Great Britain. Both film industries produced films overtly or covertly depicting the Cold War, characterised by propaganda, coercion and resistance to varying degrees. Integrating these findings from the fields of masculinity studies and (cultural) Cold War studies, this book analyses in what shape the interplay between widespread political and ideological Cold War convictions and Cold War notions of masculinity found its way onto British and American cinema screens of the early Cold War.

Kathleen Starck

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