Vital Masculinity: Assemblages of Debility and Capacity in the Danish Lifestyle TV Show Real Men
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Vital Masculinity : Assemblages of Debility and Capacity in the Danish Lifestyle TV Show Real Men. / Eriksen, Camilla Bruun; Hvidtfeldt, Karen.
I: NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, Bind 29, Nr. 1, 2021, s. 50-62.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Vital Masculinity
T2 - Assemblages of Debility and Capacity in the Danish Lifestyle TV Show Real Men
AU - Eriksen, Camilla Bruun
AU - Hvidtfeldt, Karen
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Danish TV show Real Men aims to inform viewers about popular health science, illness and health-related subjects whilst entertaining them with insights into the lives of people in pursuit of “health and happiness”—in this case, a handful of middle-aged men from rural Denmark. In this article, we investigate Real Men as an example of the ways in which the middle-aged male-sexed body is increasingly becoming medicalized. Drawing on assemblage theory, and feminist theories of class, ability, and fat, this article explores how notions of the middle-aged male-sexed body occur, assemble and emerge within a mediated framework of health and masculinity with a focus on affect and materiality. We introduce the term vital masculinity and suggest it as an analytical tool in order to understand how new/old notions of masculinity emerge through representations of bodily capacity and debility in a popular mainstream TV show.
AB - The Danish TV show Real Men aims to inform viewers about popular health science, illness and health-related subjects whilst entertaining them with insights into the lives of people in pursuit of “health and happiness”—in this case, a handful of middle-aged men from rural Denmark. In this article, we investigate Real Men as an example of the ways in which the middle-aged male-sexed body is increasingly becoming medicalized. Drawing on assemblage theory, and feminist theories of class, ability, and fat, this article explores how notions of the middle-aged male-sexed body occur, assemble and emerge within a mediated framework of health and masculinity with a focus on affect and materiality. We introduce the term vital masculinity and suggest it as an analytical tool in order to understand how new/old notions of masculinity emerge through representations of bodily capacity and debility in a popular mainstream TV show.
U2 - 10.1080/08038740.2020.1807603
DO - 10.1080/08038740.2020.1807603
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 50
EP - 62
JO - NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
JF - NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research
SN - 0803-8740
IS - 1
ER -
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