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Workshop 1: men's bodies

10.00	Coffee
10.15	Welcome and Introduction
10.30	SESSION I: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
	Kate Hunt (MRC, Glasgow), ‘The influence of masculinity studies on understandings of gender and health’ Rosaleen O’Brien (General Practice & Primary Care, Glasgow), ‘Men’s experiences of the consultation and its relation to, and implications for, the practice of masculinity’ Brendan Gough (Psychology, Nottingham Trent), ‘Masculinised constructions of the body in men's health promotion discourse’ - B Gough's slides
12.30	Lunch
1.30	SESSION II: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
	Arthur McIvor (Strathclyde), 'Forging the male body: Masculinities in the Scottish heavy industries, c1930-1980s' - A McIvor's slides Alison Turnbull (Strathclyde), 'War and Masculine Identities in the Reserved Occupations 1939-1945: Emergent Ideas in Oral Narratives' Rose Elliott (Glasgow), Reflections on the history of smoking among men in Scotland in a comparative perspective
3.15	Tea
3.45	SESSION III: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES A discussion of R. W. Connell & James W. Messerschmidt, ‘Hegemonic masculinity: rethinking the concept’, Gender & Society, 19:6 (2005), pp. 829-59
4.45	Finish