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Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society

image Duane Duncan

BA(Hons), MA (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)

PhD

 

 

Duane Duncan - Research Officer

Disciplinary expertise

Sociology; Cultural Geography

Broad approach

Poststructural, feminist, and queer theories of sexuality; post-modernity; discourse; symbolic interactionism; embodiment; body image; gay men; masculinity.

Qualitative.

Current projects
 

Men, Sexuality and Health: New issues, new directions (Gary Dowsett)

Publications

 

Duncan, D (2007) Out of the Closet and into the Gym: gay men and body image in Melbourne, Australia, Journal of Men’s Studies, 15: 3.  

Costello, L, and Duncan, D (2006), The ‘Evidence’ of Sex, the ‘Truth’ of Gender: moral panic over a child’s body, Children’s Geographies, 4: 2. 157-172.

Bird, L, Cornforth, S, Duncan, D, and S Roberson (2005), Professionals Becoming Researchers: collective engagement and difficulties of transformation, International Journal of Critical Psychology, 13, 96-116.

O’Hagan, M, Kindon, S, Wyse, S, and D Duncan (eds) (2002) Annotated Bibliography on Social Capital with relevance to Aotearoa/New Zealand, School of Earth Sciences Research Report No. 15, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 35pp.

Duncan, D (2000) An Investigation and Analysis of the History, Development and Importance of GAYBC to the Wellington Gay Community: a research project, Women’s Studies occasional papers (Victoria University of Wellington), queer studies papers, no. 1. 29pp.  

Conference presentations

 

October 2006                         
Embodying a Gay Male Identity: body image, visibility and identity amongst gay men. Intersecting Ideas, School of Political and Social Inquiry Postgraduate Symposium, Monash University.  

July 2006                                
Out of the Closet, into the Gym: body image pressures in the gay male “scene”. Masculinity, Emotion and Subjectivity, Monash University.

December 2004
“Let Me Hear Your Body Talk”: subjectivity, sexuality and geography. Speaking Through Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography Study Group Meeting, Hobart.

Contact details

Email: d.duncan@latrobe.edu.au

Tel: (03) 9285 5352

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