SHA session call for papers: Hey historical archaeologists! Anyone else, besides me and Jessica Striebel MacLean, have a paper relating to masculinity/gender they want to present in DC? Or know someone who does? We're seeing if we can gather a session over the next week. Let one of us know asap! Doesn't have to be about boys, just touch on masculinity via co-construction, intersectionality, whatever.

Session Abstract: 
Material Masculinities
This session will explore the social functions of masculinity or being masculine, the co-construction of masculinity, femininity, and other sexual and gendered identities, and the intersections of multiple subjectivities with perceived masculine ideologies. To argue that identity--gendered or otherwise--is both maintained and performed through materiality is not new. What is (relatively) new, and critically important, is the deconstruction of heteronormative white maleness as a neutral stance in past lives and present scholarship; the privileged stance from which social power and natural rights flow. The deep history of masculinities contextualizes pressing debates of contemporary society, such as the role of feminism, "men's rights" movements, and structural relationships between violence, race, and gender.