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
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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/
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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:
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