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(Re)theorising laddish masculinities in higher education

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:40 authored by Alison Phipps
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.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Gender and Education

ISSN

1360-0516

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Issue

7

Volume

29

Page range

815-830

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-03-30

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-10-09

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-03-30

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