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GEXcel Themes 3, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Invitation to apply for visiting fellowships
March 08 | 0 comments
Conference of Workshops: Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism
February 22 | 0 comments
GEXcel’s research theme Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism, directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University, invites junior and senior scholars to apply for a conference of workshops. The conference will be held at Örebro University on December 2-4, 2010.
Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII now available
January 15 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VII is now available for download. Click here!
December 1 & 2: Two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
November 26 | 0 comments
GEXcel: Gendering EXcellence Themes 4 & 5 is proud to announce two open lectures by Prof. Johan Galtung
Work in Progress Report Vol. VI now available
October 23 | 0 comments
The GEXcel Work in Progress Reoprt Volume VI is now available for download. Click here!
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.
Download the Work in Progress Report from the Örebro Conference
December 04 | 0 comments
This fourth work-in-progress report comprises short summaries of most of the presentations given at GEXcel’s first research conference, which took
place at Örebro University on May 22-25, 2008.
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(What's this?)Sørensen, Niels Ulrik, Post Doc
By Malena Gustavson on 25 Aug | 0 comments

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.



