Description: This book explores the recent rise in different types of men using digital media to sexualise their bodies. Using four different case studies - the celebrity male nude leak, the 'spornosexual', RuPaul's Drag Race and chemsex - it argues that they do this to live out, negotiate...
Brief description: Jamie Hakim is Lecturer at King's College London, UK. His research interests lie at the intersection of digital culture, intimacy, embodiment and care. His book Work That Body: Male Bodies in Digital Culture was published in 2019. He was principle investigator on the Digital Intimacies project. He's also co-investigator on the AHRC funded 'Public Health Messaging during the COVID Pandemic: Dating App Usage and Sexual Wellbeing among Men Who have Sex with Men'.
Review Quotes: Engrossing, original and very smart, this book zooms in on the production of male bodies under neoliberalism without shying away from the affective ambiguities, elusive pleasures and resistant moments that this entails. Moving from celebrity male nude leaks to spornosexuals, to RuPaul's Drag Race and to chemsex, Work that Body represents contemporary cultural studies at its best.