Browsing by Author "Brickell, Chris"
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Affect and the History of Masculinities
Brickell, ChrisPurpose – Many scholarly disciplines are currently engaged in a turn to affect, paying close attention to emotion, feeling and sensation. The purpose of this paper is to locate affect in relation to masculinity, time and ... -
Court Records and the History of Male Homosexuality
Brickell, ChrisCourt records have played a central role in research on the history of sex and intimacy between men. They have revealed patterns of policing and punishment in countries where homosexuality has been illegal, and have also ... -
Histories of Adolescence and Affect: Setting an Agenda
Brickell, ChrisWhat did adolescence feel like in the past? This article explores the historical relationships between adolescence and affect – feeling, emotion and lived intensities – in order to explore this question. Drawing from a ... -
Homoerotic Subjectivities and the Historical Imagination
Brickell, ChrisThe subjectivities of homoerotically-inclined men sometimes seem elusive, especially in an historical context. This article explores a range of life documents - court files, diaries, photographs and letters - and looks at ... -
Iconographies of 'The House' and the Political Imagination in 1940s New Zealand
Brickell, ChrisThis article examines the ways in which various images of ‘the house’ were constructed with the support of the state in New Zealand in the late 1940s. The context for these constructions was a large-scale public housing ... -
Masculinites, Performativity, and Subversion: A Sociological Reappraisal
Brickell, ChrisThe study of masculinities has not escaped the influence of Judith Butler’s writings on gender, performativity, and subversion. However, this article suggests that Butler’s formulations of performativity and subversion ... -
Men Alone, Men Entwined: Reconsidering Colonial Masculinity
Brickell, ChrisTwo men pose together in an oval cut-out. The man on our right stands for the camera and lays his arm against the back of his seated companion. Both ignore the camera. They study a book instead, absorbed in the world ... -
Nature's Good For You: Sir Truby King, Seacliff Asylum and the Greening of Health Care in New Zealand, 1889-1922
Stock, Paul; Brickell, ChrisSir Frederic Truby King's work at Seacliff Asylum in New Zealand, between 1889 and 1922, illustrates a prominent role of agriculture in relationship to human health and the environment. King utilized farming practices, a ... -
Networks of Affect, Male Homoeroticism and the Second World War: A Soldiers Archive
Brickell, ChrisWhile geographies of affect are increasingly influential and geographies of sexuality well established, there is considerable potential for enhancing links between these subfields. This article explores the archive of a ... -
On the Case of Youth: Case Files, Case Studies, and the Social Construction of Adolescence
Brickell, ChrisCase files and case studies occupy a significant place in histories of mental illness, sexuality, and "delinquency," and historians have considered the ways case files and case studies construct subjective categories and ... -
The Politics of Post-war Consumer Culture
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Queens Gardens, 1949: The Anxious Spaces of Postwar New Zealand Masculinity
Brickell, ChrisOne evening in 1949, five met men on the steps of the Cenotaph in Queens Gardens in Dunedin, New Zealand. Two were under arrest by the end of the night, charged with indecently assaulting the others. This article explores ... -
Same-sex Desire and the Asylum: A Colonial Experience
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Sensation and the Making of New Zealand Adolescence
Brickell, ChrisMany historians associate adolescent pleasures and subcultures with the mid-twentieth century. Sensations and their personifications, this article suggests, also formed a focus for commentary and experience during the ... -
Sex Education, Homosexuality and Social Contestation in 1970s New Zealand
Brickell, ChrisThis essay examines the relationships between homosexuality and sex education in New Zealand during the 1970s. It argues that reading sex education debates and resources provides a useful way of exploring connections between ... -
Sex Instruction and the Construction of Homosexuality in New Zealand, 1920-1965
Brickell, ChrisHistorical analysis of sex education materials, as well as of the debates that surround them, can shed light upon the construction of sexuality in particular contexts. This article examines some of these materials and ... -
Sex, Space and Scripts: Negotiating Homoeroticism in History
Brickell, ChrisThere is now a rich literature on the ways sexuality is geographically situated, mediated and constituted. There is rather less on how sexual interactions are scripted within space and time. Drawing from symbolic interactionist ... -
Sexology, the Homo/Hetero Binary, and the Complexities of Male Sexual History
Brickell, ChrisThis article re-evaluates the emphasis on the ‘homo/hetero binary’, which appears in many discussions of sexuality since the late 19th century, by exploring several key European sexological texts and their classifications ... -
Sexuality and the Dimensions of Power
Brickell, ChrisPower, many scholars agree, is intrinsic to the relationships between sexuality, individual experience and social dynamics. Beyond this basic agreement, though, writers and researchers have adopted different foci. This ... -
Sexuality, Power and the Sociology of the Internet
Brickell, ChrisThe internet is an increasingly important enabler and mediator of sexual relations in society. It has begun to transform older modes of knowing, experiencing and organizing sexuality. In light of an emerging social science ...