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John Mercer

Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Director of Researcher Education and Development

Email:
john.mercer@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:
0121 331 5719

John Mercer is Professor of Gender and Sexuality in the 探花直播 Centre for Media and Cultural Research. His research interests focus on the social and cultural construction of masculinities in the 21st century. He is the author, with Clarissa Smith of Sexualised Masculinity: Men鈥檚 Bodies in 21st Century Media Culture (Routledge, 2025) Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism with Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, Susanna Paasonen and Clarissa Smith (Routledge, 2021) Pornography: Representations of Masculinity and Sexuality (Bloomsbury, 2017) Rock Hudson (BFI, 2015) and (with Martin Shingler) of Melodrama: Genre Style Sensibility. John is co-editor of the Journal of Gender Studies, editor of Porn Studies and editorial board member of Sexualities and Celebrity Studies. With Professor Clarissa Smith, he is the editor of the Routledge monograph series Masculinity, Sex and Popular Culture.

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