Ben Mechen
Biographic Data
| ID | 2352094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Mechen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Mechen |
| SIGNATURE | BEN MECHEN |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6965-2475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London's Docks, 1860-1928
This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London's docks in the 1860s to the 1920s to provide a history of global capitalism from the ground up. Moving between London and Sweden, it shows how microphysical alterations in the skeletons of dockers, the wood they carried, and rivers in both countries materialized and modified macro-level changes in tides, forestry, and shipping. Repurposin…
Men and masculinities in modern Britain
Making men
Sexpertise
Instamatic living rooms of sin”
This article considers the shift in 1970s Britain towards a pornography based not only on popular consumption but popular participation too. Focusing on the ‘Readers’ Wives’ genre of magazine features, it suggests that the making of soft-core pornography offered readers the possibility, through home photography, to document a ‘liberated’ sexual domesticity with growing cultural currency. This process involved the eroticisation of a broader turn t…
History from the top shelf
The 1970s saw representations of sex become ever more visible in Britain. This special issue is designed to stimulate further research into how shifts in cultural politics, media and society facilitated and responded to cultural depictions of sex and sexuality. To this end, our short introduction surveys some of the literature and offers a glimpse of what might be stacked along History's top shelf
Reprint of
This study exposes the diversity of practices and meanings sex-related drug use hold for participants, but also demonstrates the paucity of biomedical conceptions of sexual enhancement limited to stamina, function and libido, and the need for a more expansive approach. The study also raises questions about the extent to which contemporary discourses of self-improvement have come to 'inhabit' sexuality in the twenty-first century, and the role dru…
Pharmacosex
This study exposes the diversity of practices and meanings sex-related drug use hold for participants, but also demonstrates the paucity of biomedical conceptions of sexual enhancement limited to stamina, function and libido, and the need for a more expansive approach. The study also raises questions about the extent to which contemporary discourses of self-improvement have come to 'inhabit' sexuality in the twenty-first century, and the role dru…
History from the top shelf
The 1970s saw representations of sex become ever more visible in Britain. This special issue is designed to stimulate further research into how shifts in cultural politics, media and society facilitated and responded to cultural depictions of sex and sexuality. To this end, our short introduction surveys some of the literature and offers a glimpse of what might be stacked along History's top shelf
Pharmacosex
This study exposes the diversity of practices and meanings sex-related drug use hold for participants, but also demonstrates the paucity of biomedical conceptions of sexual enhancement limited to stamina, function and libido, and the need for a more expansive approach. The study also raises questions about the extent to which contemporary discourses of self-improvement have come to 'inhabit' sexuality in the twenty-first century, and the role dru…
Reprint of
This study exposes the diversity of practices and meanings sex-related drug use hold for participants, but also demonstrates the paucity of biomedical conceptions of sexual enhancement limited to stamina, function and libido, and the need for a more expansive approach. The study also raises questions about the extent to which contemporary discourses of self-improvement have come to 'inhabit' sexuality in the twenty-first century, and the role dru…
Instamatic living rooms of sin”
This article considers the shift in 1970s Britain towards a pornography based not only on popular consumption but popular participation too. Focusing on the ‘Readers’ Wives’ genre of magazine features, it suggests that the making of soft-core pornography offered readers the possibility, through home photography, to document a ‘liberated’ sexual domesticity with growing cultural currency. This process involved the eroticisation of a broader turn t…
History from the top shelf
The 1970s saw representations of sex become ever more visible in Britain. This special issue is designed to stimulate further research into how shifts in cultural politics, media and society facilitated and responded to cultural depictions of sex and sexuality. To this end, our short introduction surveys some of the literature and offers a glimpse of what might be stacked along History's top shelf
Sexpertise
Men and masculinities in modern Britain
Making men
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London's Docks, 1860-1928
This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London's docks in the 1860s to the 1920s to provide a history of global capitalism from the ground up. Moving between London and Sweden, it shows how microphysical alterations in the skeletons of dockers, the wood they carried, and rivers in both countries materialized and modified macro-level changes in tides, forestry, and shipping. Repurposin…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)