Boyhood, Sport, and the Mild Brutalization of the Body

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Jeff Hearn Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK hearn@hanken.fi

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Abstract

In this contribution, I consider some appreciative links and qualified connections between Raewyn Connell's work and my own. In particular, I use the example of sport, a key area in the making of boys and young men in many parts of the world, with special reference to body, practice, and theoretical and empirical conceptualizations of masculinity.

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Jeff Hearn is Senior Professor, Gender Studies, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa. He is co-managing editor of Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality book series; and co-editor of NORMA: The International Journal for Masculinity Studies; and was chair/co-chair of RINGS: International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies, 2014–2020. Recent books include Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis, co-edited with Tamara Shefer, Kopano Ratele, and Floretta Boonzaier, 2018; Unsustainable Institutions of Men, co-edited with Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Marina Hughson, 2019; Age at Work, with Wendy Parkin, 2021. Email: hearn@hanken.fi

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