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- Birkbeck 6: semi-conforming masculinity
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 122 days old
- Alexandra Shepard was the keynote early modern speaker at the Birkbeck conference on masculinity I've blogged about before and had some very interesting comments to make about the theme of ‘anxiety’ and ‘crisis’ in masculinity. She started from the point that there were far more ‘types’ of male identity than female identity (as reflected in... more
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- Birkbeck 5: continuity, change, and the male archive
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 134 days old
- One of the things that any historian of masculinity comes across when listening to papers across a very wide time span (as at the Birkbeck conference) is recurrent norms and models. (This can lead to what Chris Fletcher memorably referred to as the ‘earlier than thou’ tendency, especially among medievalists). There were some interesting... more
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- Birkbeck 4: the political uses of gender history
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 138 days old
- Several speakers at the Birkbeck conference (particularly John Tosh and Harry Brod, who have a very long history in the field) were urging that the history of masculinity reconnects with its roots in the politics of the New Men’s movements, and political engagement was also one theme of an extra lecture associated with the conference: the... more
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- Birkbeck 3: analysing misogyny
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 141 days old
- One of the themes that kept on cropping up in discussions at the Birkbeck conference on masculinity is the extent to which historians of masculinity should be exploring all-male institutions/relationships as opposed to male-female interactions. To some extent this reflects different research traditions within particular periods: a lot of... more
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- Birkbeck 2: what is masculinity?
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 143 days old
- Given that the title of the Birkbeck conference included the question ‘what is masculinity?’, it’s not surprising that there was so much discussion of definitions and approaches, until at times my eyes started to glaze over. Should we be looking at masculinity or masculinities or gender history or men’s history or ‘critical studies of men and... more
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- Birkbeck 1: Ain’t I a medievalist too?
- by magistra
- in magistraetmater.blog.co.uk
- 145 days old
- The conference at Birkbeck I’ve just been to on ‘What is masculinity? How useful is it as a historical category?’ was fascinating, if rather overwhelming at times. I wasn’t the only person who felt serious intellectual overload by the end, and I am likely to end up blogging a lot about this, partly just to try and sort out in my own mind what I... more
