How do we build a new masculinity ?

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Artist and photographer Sunil Gupta, authors CN Lester (Trans Like Me) and Tom Shakespeare (The Sexual Politics of Disability), and Barbican curator Alona Pardo join Matthew Sweet in a discussion prompted by the Barbican exhibition called Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography to debate whether the old construct of masculinity in our culture is broken? As new ideas and thinking enter the debate, what is essential and what we can do away with as we look to build a new masculinity?

You can find other Free Thinking discussions looking at identity The Changing Image of Masculinity discussed by JJ Bola, Derek Owusu & Ben Lerner https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b0mx Beards, Listening, Masculinity https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0833ypd Jordan B Peterson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b3fk63 Can there be multiple versions of me https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvlxs TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong, performer Emma Frankland, GP and author Gavin Francis and philosopher Julian Baggini discuss the changing self with Anne McElvoy Weimar and the subversion of cabaret culture https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b7r7

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0:43.5	a programme about masculinity related to a big new exhibition on the subject, which of course is now
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1:32.5	We're so butch on freethinking.
1:35.0	Really, we are, or sufficiently so anyway, to tackle the subject of tonight's programme,
1:40.3	which is masculinity, often said to be in crisis.
1:44.4	That was how it was put in the 1990s when we watched the full Monty
1:48.3	and realised that the post-industrial world had made male work clothes
1:53.3	as quaintly kinky as French maids outfits.
1:57.1	Nowadays we hear another word, toxic,
1:59.5	as if certain types, certain flavours of masculinity
2:02.4	might make you sick like the angry red flesh of a mushroom, one of those ones that you suddenly see in the woods.
2:10.0	On this programme we'll consider other words. Is masculinity broken? Is it working? Has its big end gone?
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