Institut für Soziologie
Institut für Soziologie

Current Research & Research Interests

I am currently writing my doctoral thesis on the hormonalization of masculinity, that is, how masculinity has been transformed by thinking and practicing masculinity in hormonal registers. Working mainly with Latour and Haraway, I am approaching the topic of masculinity and hormones from a theoretical standpoint sensitive to materialities. I am investigating the hormonalization of masculinity in the form of four case studies, turning to the conflict between natties and juicers in the fitness community, to the hormonal practices and discussions amongst trans men and trans maculine people, to older men worried about their decreasing testosterone levels, and to the alt-right's narrative of an epidemiological decline in testosterone levels among white men. In each of these fields, I am following testosterone's lead to see how it co-structures the field and what it effects.

Generally, I am interested in ...

  • embodiment, bodies & body politics
  • subjectivation & subjectivity
  • nature / culture
  • gender, esp. masculinity
  • sexuality
  • medicine
  • biopolitics

... from the perspective of ...

  • new materialist theories, and other theories sensitive to materialities (Haraway, Latour)
  • poststructuralist theories
  • (queer-)feminist theories

Vita

2022

Research Associate, DAAD-funded project "TUC Digital Programs", International Office

  • Design, implementation and analysis of a quantitative project evaluation
since 2019 Research Associate, Professorship for Sociological Theory, TU Chemnitz
2018 M.A. Sociology (with distinction), University of Warwick, UK
2017 BA Sociology (with distinction), University of Hamburg

Awards and Scholarships

2018

I was awarded the Deborah Lynne Steinberg prize for the best dissertation in feminist cultural studies for my MA dissertation "Troubling Masturbation: NoFap’s Programmatic Subjectivity and the Manosphere" (supervisor: Cath Lambert).

2017-18

I received a scholarship by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) which allowed me to study at Warwick University.

2017

I was awarded the Janpeter Kob prize by the alumni organization of Hamburg sociologists and the Gender prize of the faculty of economics and social sciences of the University of Hamburg for my BA dissertation "Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: (Re-)Configurations of biopolitical governmentality" (supervisors: Ute Tellmann, Susanne Krasmann).

Publications

  • Hartmann, Marlene (i.E.) Die Kulturalisierung der Gegenwart. Andreas Reckwitz' Gesellschaft der Singularitäten. In: Sina Farzin & Henning Laux (Hg.): Soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnosen III. Springer VS.

  • Hartmann, Marlene & Laux, Henning (i.E.) Bruno Latour. In: Martin Endreß & Benjamin Rampp (Hg.) Handbuch Politische Soziologie. Nomos.

  • Hartmann, Marlene (2021) The Totalizing Meritocracy of Heterosex: Subjectivity in NoFap. Sexualities, 24(3): S. 409-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460720932387

► Interview about NoFap with Matheus de Moura for TAB

  • Van den Berk, Ivo; Stolz, Katrin; Schultes, Konstantin; Hartmann, Marlene (2016) Hamburger Entwicklungsmodell der Studienenergie. In: Van den Berk, Ivo; Petersen, Kirsten; Schultes, Konstantin; Stolz, Katrin (Hg.) Studierfähigkeit: Theoretische Erkenntnisse, empirische Befunde und praktische Perspektiven. Hamburg: Universitätskolleg-Schriften.

Panels, Talks & Workshops

12.2022 Teilnahme am Doktorand:innenworkshop "(Un)Versehrte Leiblichkeit erforschen", Universität Bielefeld

02.12.2022

 The hormonalization of masculinity, "Gender Studies Conference 2022 | Feminist Matterings - Indigenous and Arctic Engagements", University of Oulu
28.09.2022

Organisation der Ad-hoc-Gruppe Männlichkeit & Körperlichkeit gemeinsam mit Fabian Hennig. Vortrag Testosteron - Zur Hormonalisierung von Männlichkeit, Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld.

► Bericht von Hannah Schmidt-Ott für Soziopolis von der Veranstaltung

04.07.2019

 Troubling Masturbation: NoFap's Programmatic Subjectivity and the Manosphere, panel "Mobilising Masculinity" at "European Conference on Politics & Gender (ECPG"), University of Amsterdam

Teaching

► Sprechstunden nach Vereinbarung

WiSe 2022/23

 Übung "Soziologische Klassiker"
SoSe 2022 Seminar "Einführung in die neuere soziologische Theorie"
WiSe 2021/22 Übung "Soziologische Klassiker"
SoSe 2021 Lektüreseminar "Subjekt, Macht, Wahrheit. Foucault und die Sexualität"
WiSe 2020/21 Übung "Soziologische Klassiker"
SoSe 2020 Lektüreseminar zu Bruno Latours Wir sind nie modern gewesen
SoSe 2020 Seminar "Einführung in die neuere soziologische Theorie"
WiSe 2019/20 Übung „Soziologische Klassiker“
SoSe 2019 Lektüreseminar zu Donna Haraways Staying with the Trouble

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