Man Enough: An Interdisciplinary New York University Graduate Student Colloquium on Masculinity, presents:
Failure to Perform: Male Body Performativity and Hegemonic Masculinity (A Panel).
On Friday, 13 March 2009, 5.30pm.
@19 University Place, Room 222, New York City
Central to R.W. Connell’s now classic formulations of hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculinities are “body-reflexive practices”: male bodies as exemplary sites of social agency through which norms of social conduct, as well as configurations of rebellion against the pressures of normativity, are constructed, performed and contested. Focusing on three contemporary, cross-cultural configurations of the male body – penile erection dysfunction in a case study of Mexican men, classically trained Korean ballet dancers, and Richard Pryor’s performativity and its liberatory laughter – our panel seeks to raise and answer questions surrounding the role of the male body vis-à-vis issues of race, subordination and liberation, habitus, hegemony and social change, and the freedom-conferring potentials of comedy.
‘Ballet, Male Dancers and Their Embodied Masculinities: The Case of Professional Classic Ballet Dancers in Korea’ – Haryun Peun, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook
‘Richard Pryor’s Expansive Masculinity’ – H. Alexander Welcome, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, CUNY, The Graduate Center
Moderator: Kristina Varade, PhD candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, CUNY, The Graduate Center
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
Light refreshments will be provided. Please bring (any) ID to enter building. For more information log on to: http://manenough.wordpress.com/
