Masculinity Sex and Popular Culture AHRC Network Launch
Masculinity and Body Image in the 21st Century
Birmingham City University
Friday 3rd May 2019
Call for Papers
Popular
culture is saturated with images of men’s bodies that might once have been dismissed as homoerotic, pornographic
or
obscene. Now commonplace, images of sexualized male bodies inform
understandings of contemporary masculinities and can be felt in the ways
men experience and describe their bodies
and represent themselves on and off line.
This
24-month AHRC funded research network will explore the pervasiveness of
sexualized masculine embodiment across contemporary popular culture,
and set an ambitious agenda
for subsequent research. The network steering group includes Begonya
Enguix, Joao Florencio, Jamie Hakim, Mark McGlashan, Peter Rehberg and
Florian Voros. Our first, free to attend event in Birmingham in May 2019
will set priorities for the network by addressing
contemporary concerns about men’s physical and mental well-being within
the context of a sexualised culture and will focus on male body image.
We invite individual papers,
pre-constituted panels, poster presentations, video presentations or
position papers on topics related to masculinity and body image in the
21st century from any field of study.
The network will engage with a range of questions including but not limited to:
How is the male body sexualized across a breadth of online and offline media?
What does sexualised masculinity mean for the social and cultural construction of masculinities?
What politics underpin sexualised masculinity?
What is the relationship between debates around health and well-being, and sexualised masculinity?
How
do neoliberalism, precarity, class, race, nation and geographic region
impact on manifestations of sexualised masculinity across Europe?
These
questions matter for popular debate and media reportage, the work of
health professionals, educators and policy makers and we are keen to
involve practitioners and
non-academics in our discussions and events.
Please send a 300-word abstract and short bio (max. 100 words)
to Professor John Mercer
john.mercer@bcu.ac.uk and Professor Clarissa Smith
clarissa.smith@sunderland.ac.
Deadline for proposals 15th February 2019
Attendance will be free.
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