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  • GEXcel Seminars this Autumn

    October 16 | 0 comments

    Sheila Jeffreys, Toni Calasanti and many more will visit GEXcel Theme 2 in November and December. If you wish to hear them talk, you can find out where and when in our seminar series programme.

  • New invitation to apply for visiting fellowship

    August 26 | 0 comments

    A new invitation to apply for a GEXcel visiting fellowship is announced. The research theme is "Deconstruction the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities" (Theme 2), directed by Prof. Jeff Hearn, at Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden.
    Apply before October 14, 2008 (for Spring 2009).

  • Read the work-in-progress report from GEXcel's spring seminars

    August 15 | 0 comments

    This is GEXcel's fourth work-in-progress report and it presents the proceedings from the research carried out by GEXcel Visiting Fellows Eudine Barriteau, Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Ferguson, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang during their stay at Örebro University in spring 2008. The work is part of GEXcel’s first theme, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change.

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  • Photos from Theme 1 Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Global Change

    May 27 | 0 comments

  • Visiting Fellows hold seminars at Örebro University

    March 19 | 0 comments

    On April 24-29 Eudine Barriteau, Ann Ferguson, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Stevi Jackson and Xingkui Zhang, all GEXcel Visiting Fellows, hold open seminars at Örebro University. Click here for schedule and abstracts.

  • International Conference: The War Question for Feminism

    February 21 | 0 comments

  • Read the work-in-progress papers of Theme 1

    February 01 | 0 comments

    The GEXcel Work in Progress Report Volume II is the result of the initial activities carried out within the frame of GEXcel’s first research theme, Gender, Sexuality and Global Change. All the authors participated in the one-day opening seminar of the theme, which took place at Örebro University, Sweden, on October 17, 2007.

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Sørensen, Niels Ulrik, Post Doc

By Malena Gustavson on 25 Aug | 0 comments

E-mail:
nus@dpu.dk

Niels Ulrik Sørensen
Niels Ulrik Sørensen is associate professor at the Danish School of Education, University of Aarhus 

GEXCEL PROJECT
Abstract for mini-conference 20 November:

Detours for heterosexuality. Young boys viewing male bodies in pornography

This paper analyses young boys’ descriptions of their meetings with male bodies in pornography. It is based on qualitative interviews with 15 and 16 year old boys performed in the NIKK-project “Youth, gender and pornography in the Nordic countries”, which took place in 2005 and 2006. The paper explores the tension between the masculine and the feminine, the homosexual and the heterosexual generated during these meetings. Especially it focuses on the tension related to the young boys’ attempts to assume masculine and heterosexual positions and the feminisation and homosexualisation inherent in their looking at male bodies in pornography. The paper shows that the boys pursue various strategies to reinterpret body, gender and sexuality in order to avoid this feminisation and homosexualisation. However this reinterpretation sometimes creates friction between the masculine and the heterosexual, and the boys feel that they cannot position themselves as both – they have to choose between masculinity or heterosexuality. The paper explores how and what they choose.

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Theme 2: Deconstructing the Hegemony of Men and Masculinities: Contradictions of Absence
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