To sexually perform or protect: masculine identity construction and perceptions of women's sexuality on a university campus in the Midwestern USA

Sweeney, Brian

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2013.817968

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“…Greek fraternities, given their purchased residences, host many of the most popular social events on campus, giving them enormous control over who gets to party and how. Greek sororities, on the other hand, must remain alcohol‐free, preventing women from throwing their own parties, and compelling them to accept the terms presented at fraternity parties (Armstrong and Hamilton ; Sweeney ). As a result, access to the party scene and hookup culture is limited to those with particular forms of social capital, as fraternity members work to ensure large numbers of conventionally attractive, heterosexual women at their parties (Armstrong and Hamilton ).…”

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Navigating Campus Hookup Culture: LGBTQ Students and College Hookups

2018

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Research on the college hookup scene consistently shows it to be heavily gendered and heteronormative. In spite of the extensive research on hookup culture, there are limited data on how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students navigate hookups on college campuses. Yet queer hookups potentially provide a space for students to challenge the dominant understandings of gender and sexuality that permeate the college hookup scene, creating alternative visions for how hookups and other sexual relationships may proceed. Drawing on interviews with 24 LGBTQ college students at a regional university in the southeastern United States, this research investigates how LGBTQ college students negotiate the hookup scene on college campuses. As we show, LGBTQ students are sharply critical of dominant hookup culture and aim to challenge heteronormative practices by deconstructing normative patterns of behavior, emphasizing communication and consent, and queering standards of pleasure. In spite of their stated aims, many respondents replicated gendered practices in their hookups, limiting the transformative potential of queer hookups. This study indicates that while LGBTQ students are actively working to remake hookup culture, and, in some ways, are succeeding, barriers to a more mindful hookup culture remain, even among those who explicitly seek new ways to pursue sexual relationships.

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2018

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“…A subsequent wave of grassroots activism and policy conversation was set within an ebb and flow of media stories which incorporated both genuine concern and elements of moral panic (Phipps 2015, Phipps andYoung 2015a andb). These debates in the UK paralleled similar ones internationally, for instance around 'eve teasing' in South Asian countries (Nahar et al 2013, Mills 2014, and 'bro cultures' (Chrisler et al 2012), 'hookup cultures' (Garcia et al 2012, Sweeney 2014 and 'rape culture' (Heldman and Brown 2014) in the US. 1 Within much of the discussion there was a sense of a continuum between 'everyday' forms of sexism and more violent sexual assault (see Kelly 1988), and an understanding of violence against university women as a global phenomenon.…”

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“…Contemporary manhood often continues to be constructed in relation to women and sexuality (Sweeney 2014), which means that the idea of a gender binary (as well as an explicit gay/straight distinction) is relevant to theorising how masculinities are formed and performed. However, the idealised notions of masculine and feminine do not map directly on to the social categories of men and women, or the medical practice of assigning infants male or female at birth.…”

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(Re)theorising laddish masculinities in higher education

Phipps

2016

Gender and Education

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In the context of renewed debates and interest in this area, this paper reframes the theoretical agenda around laddish masculinities in UK higher education, and similar masculinities overseas. These can be contextualised within consumerist neoliberal rationalities, the neoconservative backlash against feminism and other social justice movements, and the postfeminist belief that women are winning the 'battle of the sexes'. Contemporary discussions of 'lad culture' have rightly centred sexism and men¹s violence against women: however, we need a more intersectional analysis. In the UK a key intersecting category is social class, and there is evidence that while working class articulations of laddism proceed from being dominated within alienating education systems, middle class and elite versions are a reaction to feeling dominated due to a loss of gender, class and race privilege. These are important differences, and we need to know more about the conditions which shape and produce particular performances of laddism, in interaction with masculinities articulated by other social groups. It is perhaps unhelpful, therefore, to collapse these social positions and identities under the banner of 'lad culture', as has been done in the past. IntroductionIn the past 20 years, critical studies of men and masculinities have burgeoned (Beasley 2012). A broad body of work across the social/biological sciences and humanities, focusing on men's and boys' identities and a variety of social problems such as mental health issues, unemployment, educational underachievement and violence, has been paralleled by the development of a policy literature on how gender issues affect men (Kimmel, Hearn and Connell 2004). Laddism as both an identity performance and social practice has been a key part of this canon, investigated as a phenomenon in itself and positioned as a causal factor in relation to a number of 'men's issues'. Since 2010, the figure of the 'lad' has especially come to dominate discussions around masculinities in UK higher education, and has been associated with concerns about sexual harassment and violence. However, there have been few attempts as yet to (re)theorise and contextualise contemporary laddish masculinities, a space I wish to occupy in this paper.

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“…The article builds on and contributes to critical scholarship on geographies of alcohol that, echoing the words of Wilton and Moreno (2012, p.107), engage with drinking and drunkenness through a de-centring of medical, criminal, and moralistic models (Jayne et al 2006(Jayne et al , 2011Sweeney 2014). Our argument is that gendered bodies are an outcome of an 'object-target of' and 'condition for' contemporary forms of biopower based around forms of intervention that aim to optimise the sober body against the threat of intoxication.…”

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Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Waitt

Clement

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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Gender is a key lens for interpreting meanings and practices of drinking. In response to the overwhelming amount of social and medical alcohol studies that focus on what extent people conform to norms of healthy drinking, this article extends critical feminist geographical engagement with assemblage thinking to explore how the technologies of biopower covertly materialised as bodily habits may be preserved and challenged. We suggest an embodied engagement with alcohol to help think through the gendered practices and spatial imaginaries of rural drinking life. Our account draws on interviews with women of different cohort generations with Anglo-Celtic ancestry living in a country town in Victoria, Australia. Three vignettes based around emergent themes of maternal, domicile and socialising bodies help shed light on the contradictory ways gender is lived through the dynamics of alcohol consumption which help constitute everyday life in a country town.

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To sexually perform or protect: masculine identity construction and perceptions of women's sexuality on a university campus in the Midwestern USA

Cited by 20 publications

References 41 publications

Navigating Campus Hookup Culture: LGBTQ Students and College Hookups

Navigating Campus Hookup Culture: LGBTQ Students and College Hookups

(Re)theorising laddish masculinities in higher education

Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

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