[Commpsych] Fwd: FW: SAVE THE DATE: 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*
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