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The
Values of Violence: Gender Studies: Male De: Michael Dickel [dickel@macalester.edu] 42nd
Annual M/MLA Convention Deadline
for abstracts (or papers): April 1, 2000 Please
distribute to interested others. ---------------- Recent events have focused popular media attention on masculine violence--the shootings at Columbine, the Wyoming murder of a gay man, the Texas dragging death of a black man prominent among those events. Media discussion has focused on causes of this violence (media, economics, political culture, competitive sports), on this violence as socially transgressive, and on ways to contain (control, prevent) this "marginal" violence. However, violence might also be seen as serving hegemonic masculinities in several ways: for example, the white knight who saves the princess in danger of rape can only do so if the black knight is a real threat of violence to the princess. This idea raises questions about whether or not these extremes of violence are indeed transgressive. This session seeks to ask questions about violence and masculinity beyond the obvious questions asked by the media:
These are different questions than how does the culture produce unwanted violence, in that these questions assume that violence has a social function for hegemonic masculinities (and therefore may well be "desired" by the hegemonic system). Papers should address these questions within the context of literature and language (broadly defined). Send abstracts or papers to:
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