[csaa-forum] UNSW public lecture - Neoliberal nudity: gendered body practices in public/private times | Prof Virginia Braun | 5 September 4.00pm

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Neoliberal nudity: gendered body practices in public/private times
Professor Virginia Braun
The University of Auckland
The Centre for Social Research in Health is pleased to present this seminar in collaboration with the Qualitative Research Network Hub and the Black Dog Institute. Please register for catering purposes.

What does it mean to have and be in the body, in contemporary neoliberal contexts? A neoliberal body can be theorised as an ‘ideal’ – where the body is under individual control, managed and worked on to comply with a nexus of cultural values including ‘health’ and (particularly for women) ‘sexiness’. In this talk, I will speculatively explore the idea of “neoliberal nudity” through reference to two particular sites and modes of body modification: body hair removal/retention, and vulval genital cosmetic surgery and related procedures. In current (western) contexts, the lines between the private, not-to-be-displayed body and the public, freely-on-show body have shifted and continue to shift, both in material practices and within (social) media sites and discourses which give them meaning. I aim to interrogate the infiltration of neoliberalism into our psychological lives and material bodily practices, as choice/agency and normative compliance crash and merge in our increasingly post-worlds.
Virginia Braun<https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/people/v-braun> is a Professor in the School of Psychology at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. A feminist and critical psychologist, her empirical research explores gender, bodies, sex/sexuality and health and, more recently, the construction of food and healthy eating on social media. Another strand of scholarship explores qualitative methodologies. She is co-author (with Victoria Clarke) of the award-winning Successful Qualitative Research: A Practical Guide for Beginners (SAGE, 2013), and co-editor (with Victoria Clarke and Debra Gray) of Collecting Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide to Textual, Media and Virtual Techniques (Cambridge UP). Notably, with Victoria Clarke, she developed an approach to thematic analysis which has become one of the most widely used qualitative methods in the social and health sciences.
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Wed 5 September 2018
4.00pm - 6.00pm

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