Description

With the extension of this DFG project we propose to deepen and build upon our previous research and to include White men in our study. By doing so we hope to identify in how far discourses about masculinity and (sexual) health related practices among different identity groups in the city are inter-dependent and mutually constitutive. We found it to be crucial to emphasize the interrelatedness of men’s symbolic, physical and social positioning in the city rather than comparing seemingly isolated entities. Our objectives in this regard comprise: a) an analysis of men’s embodied concerns about sexual potency/impotence, including implications for HIV transmission, b) an analysis of changing discourses and practices of fatherhood and their impact on men’s sexuality as well as their position in wider social networks, c) an analysis of how men from different identity groups relate to each other at a particular workplace linked to HIV prevention, and d) an analysis of men’s experience and performance of emotions as indicators of changing or conflicting gender discourses and practices in the before mentioned fields.

Project Details

Project Type

Research Project

Subject Group

Law, Economics and Social Sciences

Subject Classification

Medical Anthropology

Start

Juli 2007

End

März 2012

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - Sachbeihilfe

Organization

Faculty/Central Institute

Political and Social Sciences

Institute/Seminar

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Field/Work Area

Medical Anthropology

Project Team

Director

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger

Team Members

M.A. Hanspeter Reihling

Contact

Homepage 2

polsoz.fu-berlin.de

Keywords

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Cape Town; Ethnology; Gender; Gender Studies; HIV Research; Human Medicine; Immune System; Infectious Disease; Men; Sexualitiy; Society; South Africa

Researchers

• Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger

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