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CFP 91 - Regular: Masculinities & Political Power
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities

Organizer: Kat Fuller, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Presider: Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto

Description: 

This session explores the dynamic interplay among masculinities, male supremacy, politics, and social structures, highlighting how gender norms both shape and are shaped by contemporary social issues. Presentations examine how constructions of masculinity intersect with political ideology, expertise, health discourse, and institutional power.

Papers:

“Masculinity after Hegemony: Gender in the Interregnum,” Jillian Sunderland, University of Toronto

“Disorganized Loneliness: A Technofascist Framework,” Liz Wilcox, Boston College

“Illegitimate Expertise: Stigmatized Knowledge and Masculinity among Doomsday Preppers,” Jonathan Nathaniel Redman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Saverio Michael Roscigno, University of California, Irvine

“‘It’s Misogyny, Not a Diagnosis’: Reddit Discourse on Boys’ Mental Health and Masculinity in Netflix’s Adolescence,” Esmeralda Ramirez and Spenser Dill, The University of Texas at Austin, Jessica Frankeberger, Arizona State University and Manuel A. Ocasio, Tulane University School of Medicine

“Why Would I? Men’s Views of Novel Male Contraception,” Isaac E. Montalvo, University of Central Florida

“Women in Policing: The Trinidad and Tobago Gender Experience,” Karen Lancaster-Ellis, The University of the West Indies

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