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'Lad culture' in higher education: agency in the sexualisation debates
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posted on 2023-06-08, 17:04 authored by Alison Phipps, Isabel YoungThis paper reports on research funded by the National Union of Students, which explored women students’ experiences of ‘lad culture’ through focus groups and interviews. We found that although laddism is only one of various potential masculinities, for our participants it dominated social and sexual spheres of university life in problematic ways. However, their objections to laddish behaviours did not support contemporary models of ‘sexual panic’, even while oppugning the more simplistic celebrations of young women’s empowerment which have been observed in debates about sexualisation. We argue that in their ability to reject ‘lad culture’, our respondents expressed a form of agency which is often invisibilised in sexualisation discussions and which could be harnessed to tackle some of the issues we uncovered.
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SexualitiesISSN
1363-4607Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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4Volume
18Page range
459-479Department affiliated with
- Sociology and Criminology Publications
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2014-04-25First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2014-04-24Usage metrics
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