Auteur: Russell Luyt

Russell Luyt heads the Department of Psychology, Social Work and Counselling at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom. His work focuses primarily on the social psychology of gender, looking at the cross-cultural intersection of gender, ‘race’ and social class; the critique of traditional masculinity, femininity and gender measurement; media representations of gender; masculinities and aggression; masculinities, prejudice and sexual minorities; and qualitative methodologies.  Kathleen Starck is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Her research interests include gender studies, Cold War cultures, postcolonial studies, popular culture, contemporary drama as well as post-socialism. She recently published Of Treason, God and Testicles. Political Masculinities in British and American Films of the Early Cold War (C-S-P, 2016) and co-edited with Birgit Sauer A Man’s World? Political Masculinitiesin Literature and Culture (C-S-P, 2014), is founder of the research network “Political Masculinities” and has been organising international conferences on political masculinities since 2012.