The Intersection(s) of Ageism and Masculinities
9במהלך חודש פברואר, תתקיים בבר אילן סדנא בינלאומית בנושא של גבריות גילנות וזקנה. השתתפות אינה כרוכה בתשלום, אולם נדרשת הרשמה מראש עד 25.12.19 כאן.
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February 6, 2020
Bar Ilan University
Feldman Building (301)
9:00-9:40
Introducing critical studies of men and masculinities and their links to ageism │ Jeff Hearn
9:40-10:40
The truncated masculinity script: Aging and Masculinity in Israeli culture│ Gabriela Spector-Mersel
10:40-11:10
Coffee break
11:10- 12:10
A century of childhood- How a group of older Jewish men created the childhoods they never had │ Michael Kimmel
12:10-13:10
Sexual stereotypes of dirty old men │ Linn Sandberg
13:10-14:20
Lunch break
14:20-15:20
Cultural representations of masculinity │ Jose M. Armengol
15:20-16:00
General discussion
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General reading:
Carrigan, T., Connell, B., & Lee, J. (1985). Toward a new sociology of masculinity. Theory and society, 14(5), 551-604 (This is the long version I think there are shorter one’s too)
Kimmel, M. S., & Messner, M. A. (1998). Men’s lives. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Reading on ageing masculinities:
Armengol J.M. (2018) Aging as emasculation? Rethinking aging masculinities in contemporary U.S. fiction, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 59:3, 355-367, DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2017.1386157
Calasanti, T. (2004). Feminist gerontology and old men. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 59(6), S305-S314.
Hearn, J. (2003). Imaging the aging of men. In Images of aging (pp. 109-126). Routledge.
Hearn, J., Nordberg, M., Andersson, K., Balkmar, D., Gottzén, L., Klinth, R., … & Sandberg, L. (2012). Hegemonic masculinity and beyond: 40 years of research in Sweden. Men and masculinities, 15(1), 31-55.
Sandberg, L. (2013). Just feeling a naked body close to you: Men, sexuality and intimacy in later life. Sexualities, 16(3-4), 261-282.
Spector-Mersel, G. (2006). Never-aging stories: Western hegemonic masculinity scripts. Journal of gender studies, 15(1), 67-82.
Thompson, E. H. (Ed.). (1994). Older men’s lives (Vol. 6). Sage. Introduction section