MEDUSA
Genders in Transition: Masculinities, Affects, and Bodies

Research

The research group MEDUSA – Genders in transition: masculinities, affects and bodies (2021 SGR 00340) brings together researchers working in the fields of genders, masculinities, affects and bodies from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes anthropology, sociology, social psychology, political science, art history and philosophy. This group aims to advance the exploration of these fields from a critical social and humanistic perspective in order to analyze their contemporary intersections and their effects. 

From innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives such as feminist epistemologies (posthumanism, new materialisms and affective turns) we aspire to explore new conceptual, heuristic and analytical models that take into account non-representational theories and deal with the productivity of the intersections or assemblages between genders, affects and bodies. We want to advance in theoretical and empirical research by promoting a critical look committed to the world we are in and focused on knowledge transfer.

 

R+D+I Activity

Gender and ICTs

Studies of gender and masculinities

The studies of masculinities began in the 1970s, but they are still rare among gender studies, which have sought, above all, to account for the absence of women in the canons and confront this, and shed light on the power relations that are intrinsic to gender relations.

Our intention is to analyse genders, adopting a comprehensive approach that includes affections, bodies and technoscience, and puts the focus on masculinities, avoiding the oppositional paradigm of “new” and “old” masculinities.

Studies of bodies and affections

Our bodies and everything that affects them – senses, emotions, ideologies, gender hierarchies and binarism, and technologies – are key participants in social action and not just supports for action. The body is fundamental for our personal and social definition and (re)presentation. Our bodies are permeated by power relations that structure and delimit the rules, and affect how we live in the world and our digital and non-digital relationships.

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