IntroductionPerforming Straight White Masculinities is a pluridisciplinary research project funded by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France.
Bringing together historians, cultural theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, specialists of literature and the visual arts, the focus of this research project are the performances of heterosexual white masculinities in English-speaking countries. |
AimsThere is much high quality research published in the field of Masculinity Studies today, and yet much of this work remains firmly indebted to the theories of feminism and Gender Studies. For these reasons we can talk of a 'first generation' of Masculinity Studies, both from an epistemological and methodological perspective. The main contribution of this first generation of critical theory is that masculinity is an historical, cultural and social construction – rather than cast in its traditional monolithic mould, masculinity is understood as varied, inscribed in diverse historical and cultural contexts. |
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