041 - Thematic Session. Masculinities and Sexuality

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Research and theory continue to investigate the ways that sexual identities, behaviors, desires, and discourses are mobilized in constructing masculine gender identities and in shaping contemporary systems of power and inequality. Conversely, research also considers the ways that masculinities are relied upon to enact sexual identities, behaviors, desires, and embodiments. This panel will address the new research and cutting-edge theoretical approaches to understanding the complex interplay between masculinity and sexuality. Panelists will address the interrelated processes by which gender and sexuality reciprocally reproduce one another, with a focus on masculinity. The topic is intentionally broad, allowing us to consider scholars working on vastly different projects, but whose work draws on new theoretical frameworks outside of existing sociological investigations of masculinity.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Tristan Bridges, State University of New York-Brockport

Presider

• Tristan Bridges, State University of New York-Brockport

Individual Presentations

• Bros, Bronies, and Bullies: Contemporary Relationships between Masculinity and Homophobia - C.J. Pascoe, University of Oregon

• Average Frustrated Chumps: The Nexus of Misogyny and Male Suffering in the Global Pickup Artist Industry - Jane Ward, University of California-Riverside

• Manning Up to Being Gay: Considering Gay Masculinities Intersectionally - Anthony Christian Ocampo, California State Polytechnic University

Discussant

• Peter M. Hennen, The Ohio State University