[Bilimsel Haber] ?let: CFP: Male Beauty (4/15/07; collection)

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  Kimden:  Gonul Pultar <gpultar at kulturad.org>
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    Konu: CFP: Male Beauty (4/15/07; collection)
    Kime: Sule Tarakcioglu <suletar at kulturad.org>

We invite abstracts for a collection of essays on male beauty to be
published by Cambridge Scholarly Publishing. Save for the Greeks, Romans
and the contemporary art historian, very little has been said about
beauty and its relationship to men and masculinities. To its credit,
masculinity studies itself has surely emerged as a field of study and
has covered much ground in the last thirty years:  we have understood
masculinity as a category for analysis and, like femininity, as a social
construction; we have supported and also challenged the "crisis" in
masculinity; we have studied it both with and without "men"; we have
considered masculinity's intersection with and its divergence from other
social and cultural fields of inquiry, including feminist, queer and
most recently, postcolonial studies. According to Tim Edwards, we have
arrived at the "third wave" of masculinity studies with its "questions
of normativity, performativity and sexuality." Our collection of essays
argues, however, that our work here is far from over; more to the point,
studies of masculine "beauty" continue to be overlooked. In what ways
does male beauty inform, shape, define and redefine our definition of
masculinity itself? What does the concept of male beauty do to gender?

We are then interested in contemporary critical treatments of
"masculine" beauty (twentieth to twenty-first century) in literature,
film, television, advertising and art. Following Bryce Traister, we do
not hope to return to "heteromasculinity" or "representations of [white,
heterosexual] men-produced by men and analyzed for the most part by
men-to the center of academic cultural criticism." To this end, we
invite essays that extend beyond thinking of masculinities and its
relationship to beauty in terms of a white, middle-class, heterosexual
paradigm only and will instead look to feminist, queer, postcolonial,
and/or multicultural critiques of the category. Topics might include but
are not limited to:  women performing masculinity, transvestitism,
androgyny, racialized representations of male beauty, etc.

We will accept one-page abstracts (and/or full-length essay, if
available) until April 15, 2007. Please direct submissions and/or
questions to both Steven Davis (Indiana University) at
stevdavi at indiana.edu  and Maglina Lubovich (University of St. Thomas) at
mlubovich at stthomas.edu.
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