Call for delegates:

 

2 November 2012
One day seminar - Young Masculinities: Challenges, Changes and Transitions - Programme
BSA Meeting room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK

 

Key note speaker: Prof Eric Anderson, University of Winchester

 

Since the emergence of critical masculinities studies in the late 1970s, research has started to focus on men as gendered beings. Originally, this examined the negative components of masculinity, that there exist a plurality of masculinities, and how men are stratified within society. However, recent work has sought to challenge the centrality of homophobia as a key component of men’s identities in the 21st century. In doing so, such texts highlight a need for us to fully re-examine what it is to be a man, and to develop our understanding of how masculinities are constructed, performed and consumed after a period of significant social, cultural and economic change. This seminar brings together a range of papers from academics at various career stages to  help address some of these issues.

 

There will be a registration fee of £10 for BSA Members and £25 for non-members, which will include lunch on the day.

 

Please note that places for this event are limited. Register Online Now

 

 

 

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/study-groups/youth.aspx

 

Dr Steven Roberts

Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology

School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research

University of Kent

Gillingham Building

Chatham Maritime

Kent, ME4 4AG

T: 01634 88 8920

 

Conference announcement: New agendas on youth and young adulthood, University of Glasgow, 8th to 10th April 2013. For details see http://www.youthstudiesconference.com/

 

New book: Class Ineqaulity in Austerity Britian: Power, difference and suffering. Edited by W. Atkinson, S. Roberts, M. Savage. Published by Palgrave Macmillan – available for pre-order now: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=580973