[Commlist] CFP: Masculinity and Body Image in the 21st Century - AHRC Network Launch

*Masculinity Sex and Popular Culture AHRC Network Launch*

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*Masculinity and Body Image in the 21^st Century*

*Birmingham City University*

*Friday 3^rd May 2019*

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*Call for Papers*

Popular culture is saturated with images of men’s bodies that might once 
have been dismissed as homoerotic, pornographicor 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 addressingcontemporary 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 21^st 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 /at/ bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(john.mercer /at/ bcu.ac.uk)> and Professor Clarissa Smith 
(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk) <mailto:(clarissa.smith /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)>

Deadline for proposals 15^th February 2019

Attendance will be free.



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