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The changing face of Masculinity

By Michael Hope MA Health and Social Care Student #SCSCMMU16 Monday 25th April 2016

• Definitions of Laddishness
• History of Laddish culture
• Why is it an important subject?

Parameters

• UK
• Young males
• Lad, laddish, laddishness

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1 - Maguire 2014 2 - McCann 2015 3 - Martin 2015 4 - Chittenden & Griffiths 2015

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1 - @GeraghtyDarren 2016 2 - @AnthonyPetch 2016 3 - @_Ambermac 2016

Definitions

• Drinking heavily
• Being loud and aggressive
• ‘Having a laugh’
• Seen as intimidating and offensive

Dempster (2011); Francis (1999)

• Liking and playing sport (especially football), wearing the

‘right’ sorts of clothes

• ‘Hanging out’ with mates (Epstein 1998, Frosh et al.

2002)

• Not being seen to work hard at school work(Younger and

Warrington 2005, Jackson 2006).

• Though academic success is valued, looking like you are

working hard is ‘uncool’

• Laddishness was influential in situations where male undergraduates chose

to act in a ‘masculine’ manner to gain peer-group inclusion:

• A. Transition to University
• B. Nights out
• C. Male Sports Teams (Real/Proper lads) (Dempster & Jackson,

2014)

• Now go-to template of masculinity for most men (Dempster 2011)
• Varying degrees
• How did this come about?

History

• ‘Lads’ first coined by Paul Willis (1977):
• White working-class young men
• Distancing themselves from school culture
• Formal knowledge will only get them a desk job - seen as ‘feminine’
• Pride themselves on collecting practical knowledge, life experience

and ‘street wisdom’

• Glorification of hard manual labour
• Chauvinistic masculinity, challenging obedience, an attempt to

acquire non-formal control over the work process and attributing high value to the group

• Mid-1990s
• Middle-class young men (Jackson 2003)
• ‘a backlash against “political correctness” led to a

defiant resurgence of traditional “laddish” values’ (Francis 1999)

• ‘New man’
• No longer confined to any particular social class or

ethnic group (Francis 1999, 2008, Martino 1999, Archer 2003, Dempster 2009)

Why

• Multifaceted phenomena
• Extreme
• Widespread
• Understanding is needed

Thank you!

https://mikehopemmu.wordpress.com/ @Edumikehope91 Any questions?

References

Archer, L., (2003). Race, masculinity and schooling: Muslim boys and education. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Chittenden, M & Griffiths, S. (2015) Cambridge master calls for end to laddish culture. The Sunday Times [Online] [Accessed on 21st April 2016] http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Education/article1620988.ece

Dempster, S., (2011) I drink, therefore I’m man: gender discourses, alcohol and the construction of British undergraduate masculinities Gender and Education 23(5) pp 635-653 Dempster, S & Jackson, C. (2014) Degrees of Laddishness. Lancaster University, Lancaster, 7th February Epstein, D., (1998). Real boys don’t work: ‘underachievement’, masculinity, and the harassment of ‘sissies’. In: D. Epstein et al., eds. Failing boys? Issues in gender and achievement. Buckingham: Open University Press, 96–108. Francis, B., (1999). Lads, lasses and (New) Labour: 14–16 year-old students’ responses to the laddish behaviour and boys’ underachievement debate. British journal of sociology of education, 20 (3), 355–371. Francis, B. (2008). Teaching manfully? Exploring gendered subjectivities and power via analysis of men teachers’ gender performance. Gender and Education 20: 109–22. Frosh, S., Phoenix, A., and Pattman, R., (2002). Young masculinities: understanding boys in contemporary society. Basingstoke: Palgrave. Jackson, C., (2003). Transitions into higher education: gendered implications for academic self concept. Oxford review

• f education, 29 (3), 331–346.

Jackson, C., (2006). ‘Lads’ and ‘ladettes’ in school: gender and a fear of failure. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

References

Maguire, C. (2014) Is new wave of lad culture damaging young men's attitudes to women? Shocking rise of sexist comics and pick-up artists who catcall women and make jokes about rape. 11

th November. Daily Mail online [Online] [Accessed on 21 st

April 2016] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2829989/Is-new-wave-lad-culture-damaging-young-men-s-attitudes- women-Shocking-rise-sexist-comics-pick-artists-catcall-women-make-jokes-rape.html Martin, C. (2015) The Death of British Lad Culture: How the UK’s Dumb Young Men Finally Grew Up. Vice.com [Online] [Accessed on 21

st April 2016] http://www.vice.com/read/uni-lads-and-lad-culture-three-years-on-clive-martin

Martino, W., (1999). ‘Cool boys’, ‘party animals’, ‘squids’ and ‘poofters’: interrogating the dynamics and politics of adolescent masculinities in school. British journal of sociology of education, 20 (2), 239–263. McCann, G. (2015) Lad Culture at Uni has gone too far. 14

th September. The opinion panel community [Online] [Accessed on

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st April 2016] http://www.opinionpanel.co.uk/2015/09/14/the-repugnant-culture-of-the-unilad/

Younger, M. and Warrington, M., (2005). Raising boys’ achievement in secondary schools. Maidenhead: Open University Press. Willis, P. (1977). Learning to labour: how working class kids get working class jobs. Aldershot: Gower. @_Ambermac. (2016) Can’t heal with posh boys thinkin (sic) they’re proper hardcore and laddish cos they study in Manchester #gobacktosurreyplease. Twitter [Online] [Accessed on 21

st April 2016] https://twitter.com/_ambermac/status/

722558181130530818 @AnthonyPetch. (2016) Horrified at the amount of abuse my daughter received on Twitter today. Told to kill herself, amongst

• ther vile things. Twitter [Online] [Accessed on 21

st April 2016] https://twitter.com/AnthonyPetch/status/723069533905276930

@GeraghtyDarren. (2016) Does McGregor get a pass (including from some women) on the obnoxious stuff he comes out with because he's "one of our own" and it's banter? Twitter [Online] [Accessed on 21

st April 2016] https://twitter.com/

GeraghtyDarren/status/723174166707449859