Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University (Web)
Venue: Uppsala University, Centre for Gender Research
Time: January 18-20, 2012
500 word abstracts should be sent to Anneli Häyrén Weinestål at anneli.hayren@gender.uu.se no later than October 16 2011.
In recent years critical gender studies have raised crucial issues concerning masculinities, and power. Research has repeatedly pointed out that masculinities can be understood in terms of, for example, positions, processes, and performances, and that masculinities are multiple across cultures, geographical space, and historical time. The intersections of masculinities with other dimensions of power have also been fruitfully explored and critiqued by scholars. Among masculinity studies scholars, relationality as a critical concept for understanding masculinity as social construction has been used variously. Continue reading