Papers by Dr Chris Haywood
Sexualities, 2017
This article provides an insight into the sexual world of ‘dogging’; that of anonymous sex betwee... more This article provides an insight into the sexual world of ‘dogging’; that of anonymous sex between men, and between men and women, usually carried out in car parks. Drawing upon interviews with 12 men who engage in dogging behaviours, this article provides insights into the micro-negotiations of the dogging encounter and men’s masculine subjectivities. It argues that masculinity may have limited analytical purchase in the dogging encounter. Instead, it suggests that dogging provides a space for desubjectification where men’s subjectivities are configured in gendered ways that are not dependent on conventional models of masculinity.
Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, 2020
passed away on June 24, 2020, at the age of seventy-nine. Dr. Foster was a pioneering scholar in ... more passed away on June 24, 2020, at the age of seventy-nine. Dr. Foster was a pioneering scholar in Latin American studies, with a scholarly interest in gender and sexual identity, women's literature and cultural production, and Jewish culture. Over the course of his career, Dr. Foster published over fifty books on a wide range of subjects, including Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing, which was one of the first books on the subject in Latin American literary studies (if not the first), Sexual Textualities: Essays on Queer/ing Latin American Writing, Queer Issues in Contemporary Latin American Cinema, and El ambiente nuestro: Chicano/ Latino Homoerotic Writing. In recent years, he had turned his attention to photography and produced several monographs on the subject: Picturing the Barrio: Ten Chicano
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
The last fifteen years has seen a remarkable shift in the educational representation of British b... more The last fifteen years has seen a remarkable shift in the educational representation of British born Muslim young men. In the media-led reclassification of them, from South Asian to Muslim, they have moved from ideal student to potential jihadist. This paper draws upon a three year ethnographic study with young Muslim men located within the West Midlands. A shared emphasis on structural issues across critical theoretical frameworks on neoliberalism, government discourses, such as Prevent, (1) and counter narratives on Islamophobia serves to underplay young Muslim men's subjectivity and in so doing limits their self-authorisation. We argue that at a time of intense state/institutional surveillance as a 'suspect community' and the criminalization of ethnic and religious difference that Muslim young men are in the process of negotiating late modern urban masculine identities. Simultaneously, deploying a methodological reflexivity indicates that a re-reading of their narratives provides insights into recent political changes and national belonging.
NORMA, 2015
The 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities was organized by Initiative for Critica... more The 1st International Conference on Men and Masculinities was organized by Initiative for Critical Studies of Masculinities focused on militarism, nationalism, literature, media studies, culture, identity, politics and social construction of masculinities and how these phenomena characterize the transformation of masculinities in a global world. The verbal presentations, workshops, panels and forums stimulated the discussion around changing masculinities and provided an opportunity to exchange research experiences for future studies. The most important gain of the symposium was the opportunity of knowing each other and benefiting from a larger society all over the world by involving in theoretical and experiential demonstrations of masculinities.
Gender, Culture and Society, 2007
Gender, Culture and Society, 2007
Gender, Culture and Society, 2007
Gender, Culture and Society, 2007
Asian Journal of Social Science, 2016
In Asian societies, the framing of contemporary masculinities and femininities remains under-theo... more In Asian societies, the framing of contemporary masculinities and femininities remains under-theorised. This article critically examines the interplay between schooling, Indonesian Chinese ethnicity and the (re)production of male entrepreneurial masculinities manifested in teenage boys’ sexual/gender subjectivities and identity formation. The qualitative data obtained from an anonymous Chinese-Christian majority international school in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, illustrate how patrimonial practice, in conjunction with repudiations and identifications in an elite educational environment shape gender and specific ways of being male that also “speak” Chineseness. This exploratory case study aims to contribute a theoretically-led empirical intervention which locates Chinese ethnicity and masculinity within their socio-cultural schooling specificities as a prelude to discussing new directions for researching gendered ethnicity and education in Indonesia.
Boyhood Studies, 2015
The re-publication of Christine Hoff Sommers’s book on the War Against Boys (2000, 2013) continue... more The re-publication of Christine Hoff Sommers’s book on the War Against Boys (2000, 2013) continues to feed into a widely circulating premise that feminist inspired pedagogical strategies are having a detrimental effect on boys’ experience of education. It resonates with a UK newspaper article whose author asked: “Why do women teachers like me treat being a boy as an illness?” (Child 2010). In the late 1990s, Sara Delamont had already highlighted how the media targeted feminists for the failure of boys, where “school and classroom regimes … favour females and feminine values; a lack of academic/scholarly male role models for boys, a bias in favour of feminism in curricula, a lack of toughness in discipline, and a rejection of competition in academic or sporting matters” (1999: 14).
British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
ABSTRACT This article explores Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men’s experiences of schooling to ... more ABSTRACT This article explores Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men’s experiences of schooling to examine what inclusion/exclusion means to them. Qualitative research was undertaken with 48 Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men living in areas of the West Midlands, England. The young men highlighted three key areas: the emergence of a schooling regime operating through neo-liberal principles, the recognition of class difference between themselves and teachers, and their awareness of how racialization operated through codes of masculinity. In conclusion, it is argued that research on issues of inclusion/exclusion should be cautious when interpreting new forms of class identity through conventional categories of ethnicity.
Critical Sociology, 2014
Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community ... more Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community in Britain operates within an explanatory framework that assumes a shift from ethnicity to religion and an accompanying shift from racialization to Islamophobia. A key limitation of this work, often grounded in media representations, is that it tends to be disconnected from contemporary lived social relations. In response, this paper critically engages with these debates, drawing upon qualitative research that explores a changing cultural condition that is inhabited by British born, working-class Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men. It is argued that this emergent cultural condition cannot conceptually be contained within a singular category of religion as the contours of the young men’s cultural condition are embedded within a range of intensified and ambivalent rapidly shifting local, national and international geo-political processes. Therefore in contrast to recent theorizing and res...
International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure
Current research has suggested that sex, sexual practices and sexual identities are increasingly ... more Current research has suggested that sex, sexual practices and sexual identities are increasingly being folded into people’s leisure and recreational activities. One area that has witnessed growing popularity has been sex clubs that market themselves as places that enable heterosexual casual, anonymous sexual encounters. Traditionally called swingers’ clubs, these are not strip clubs, lap dancing clubs or brothels, we have very little information about sex clubs or the people who visit them. In response, this article defines what sex clubs are, their geographical locations, and their facilities. Alongside this, through the data scraping of 6837 profiles of people who have visited clubs and left online reviews of the clubs that they have visited, this research provides the most extensive dataset available on the gender, age, relationship status and sexual preferences of sex club patrons. The findings from the study suggest that sex clubs are an emerging space for leisure sex that prio...
The past decade has witnessed a remarkable explosion of knowledges across the academy, media and ... more The past decade has witnessed a remarkable explosion of knowledges across the academy, media and political discourse, generating a wide range of representations of men and masculinity. In this paper, we interrogate the failure for an accompanying understanding of the epistemological and methodological implications of the research process in this area of inquiry. More specifically, the paper is located within a particular arena: the schooling of masculinities. The first section critically explores how the ethnographic study, The making of men used identity politics as a methodological theme. The second section continues to draw upon this study by highlighting the emerging methodological tensions between identity politics and a politics of cultural difference. Finally, the third section builds upon this reflexive account, drawing upon our more recent work; it further explores the promise of post-structuralist methodology in relation to emerging paradigms for masculinity research.
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