Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/51552
Title: 'Damn, Channing Tatum can move!': Women's accounts of men's bodies and objectification in post-feminist times
Contributor(s): Waling, Andrea (author); Duncan, Duane  (author)orcid ; Angelides, Steven (author); Dowsett, Gary W (author)
Early Online Version: 2020-10-29
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.1177/1363460720967657Open Access Link
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/51552
Abstract: 

This paper explores how women think about men's bodies as objects of desire. It reports on one part of a larger qualitative study on men's bodywork practices in contemporary Australia. Drawing on material from three focus groups with 24 Australian women of varying ages, sexual orientations and backgrounds, the paper considers how women experience, understand and reflect on their desire for men and men's bodies. It also explores themes such as the connection women draw between what a man’s body looks like and what it can do, how attraction is experienced, the meaning making women engage in as they think about men and men's bodies, and the broader politics of sexuality and objectification that inform their perceptions and ideas. These experiences are set against ideas in post-feminist thinking on women's sexual desire and debates on their sexual empowerment. The paper argues that these women are grappling with tensions between their personal experiences of sexual objectification and a feminist ethics relating to their active and reflexive projects of sexuality.

Publication Type: Journal Article
Grant Details: ARC/DP150103666
Source of Publication: Sexualities, p. 1-24
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1461-7382
1363-4607
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 441010 Sociology of gender
440506 Sexualities
440504 Gender relations
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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