M Waites
Biographic Data
| ID | 8440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Waites |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Waites |
| SIGNATURE | WAITES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5018-1880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion
This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing government—using this case to propose a multi-dimensional critical framework for understanding when states fund LGBT+ development. The UK’s first LGBT+ themed international development project was Strong in Diversity—Bold on Inclusion, from 2019, pla…
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa
To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data are drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and imp…
Analysing African Advances Against Homophobia in Mozambique
Africa and the Contestation of Sexual and Gender Diversity
This chapter considers sexualities and genders in Africa by exploring the relationship between precolonial, colonial, and current forms of regulation. The field of research on sexual and gender diversity in Africa is introduced, including African lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) and queer research, with an emphasis on the need to challenge homogenizing characterizations of “homophobic Africa.” Differences between European colon…
Comparative colonialisms for queer analysis
Comparative analysis of colonialisms is of critical importance, and hence this article proposes and instigates such systematic comparative research with respect to same-sex sexualities and gender diversity. We offer a historical sociological comparison of the Portuguese and British empires analysing relevant regulation, in relation to two African contexts: Mozambique, which decriminalised same-sex sexual acts in 2015, and Kenya, where criminalisa…
Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics
This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a 'critical model of the boomerang effect', that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink's well-known model of the 'boomerang effect', from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations includin…
Genocide and Global Queer Politics
This article presents a critical analysis of the relationship between the concept genocide and global queer politics, offering an original mapping and examination of the discourse of genocide in this respect. Starting from the beginnings of genocide discourse with Lemkin and the Genocide Convention, existing literature is analyzed to reveal circumscribed usage in relation to non-heterosexual lives. The methodology combines analysis of genocide di…
Sexual Politics
Sexual politics was defined by the feminist Kate Millett in 1970 as encompassing the contestation of power‐structured relationships with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality, and in relation to the social system of patriarchy. Sexual politics thus politicized sociology in its approach to such inequalities, particularly in what was considered private or personal life. The women's liberation movement and the gay liberation movement brought new set…
LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts
This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK's leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement with the Commonwealth - particularly through forming The Commonwealth Equality Network, comprising national NGOs. A contribution is made to sociological and critical analysis of transnational LGBTI movements, through argument for a new analytical framework combining …
United Kingdom
This chapter explains the argument that both the latter aspects of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGB) politics in the UK, in part, can be explained by the unfavourable political opportunity structures in which these movements had to operate during most of the second half of the twentieth century. It outlines the post-war history of LGB movements in the UK and argues that the organization and influence of such movements have been strongly affec…
Sociology and human rights
Sociologists have struggled to negotiate their relationship to human rights, yet human rights are now increasingly the focus of innovative sociological analysis. This opening contribution to ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ analyses how the relationship between sociology and human rights could be better conceptualised and taken forward in the future. The historical development of the sociology of human rights is first examined, with …
Human rights, sexual orientation and the generation of childhoods
What is the relationship between global struggles over ‘sexual orientation’ and human rights, and sociological, legal and ‘queer’ understandings of sexuality and childhood? On 2 July 2009, the struggle in India to end the criminalisation of adult same-sex sexual behaviour by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a legacy of the British Empire, achieved a landmark victory. The Delhi High Court ruled in favour of a petition by the Naz Foundation, s…
Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality
Journal Article Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality Get access Jeffrey Weeks, The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life, Routledge, 2007; 283 pp.; ISBN 978-0-415-42201-7. Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citize…
Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse
This article presents a critique of the concepts 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity', which are being employed to contest global human rights discourses by prevailing international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and human rights activist networks - notably in the Declaration of Montreal (2006) and, especially, the Yogyakarta Principles (2007). Theoretical analysis, informed by social theory and queer theory, is presented of …
The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights
This introduction provides a brief overview of key political developments in global lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizing and advocacy over the past three decades as well as a summary of recent academic research and debates on these issues in politics, sociology and other disciplines. It introduces the three questions addressed by the volume's subsequent contributions: (1) How can recent global developments related to LGBT huma…
Analysing Sexualities in the Shadow of War
No abstract available
Sexual Politics
“Sexual politics” refers to the contestation of power relations with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality. The concept originates in the second‐wave feminist movement which emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s in western societies. Its definitive textual origin is Kate Millett's Sexual Politics , first published in 1970, one of the founding works of the emerging women's liberation movement which provided a social and political analysis of “patria…
The Age of Consent
The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated. The text includes: ·A unique history of age of conse
The Fixity of Sexual Identities in the Public Sphere
This article analyses the persistence of the heterosexual/homosexual binary in contemporary society, by examining the circulation of knowledge-claims concerning the age at which the ‘fixity’ of ‘sexual orientation’ is established. It examines how the ‘scientific’ claims of medical authorities have been utilized in recent debates in the UK over equalization of the age of consent, and argues that such claims have persisted in influence through deba…
Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom
The so-called 'gay age of consent' was the most high-profile issue in UK lesbian, gay and bisexual politics during the 1990s. Campaigning for an equal age of consent provoked a series of extended public and parliamentary debates, concluding with the passage of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act (2000).This article analyses these debates to reveal emerging social relationships between heterosexuality and homosexuality. It is argued that age of co…
Inventing a ‘Lesbian Age of Consent’? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the UK
This article analyses historical and contemporary debates over age of consent legislation regulating sex between women in the UK. A minimum age for sexual activity between females was created by the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922, which removed ‘consent’ as a defence to the offence of ‘indecent assault’ against a girl under the age of 16, yet prosecutions remained extremely rare until recent years. The article analyses parliamentary debates surr…
Regulation of Sexuality
Journal Article Regulation of Sexuality: Age of Consent, Section 28 and Sex Education Get access Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, 1 July 2001, Pages 495–508, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.3.495 Published: 01 July 2001
Homosexuality and the New Right
This article addresses the relationship between the New Right and the politics of homosexuality in the United Kingdom. It begins by outlining recent political conflicts surrounding attempts to equalise the 'gay age of consent' and to repeal Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988). The article then examines the New Right's relationship to homosexuality in the 1980s, and the history of socio-political analyses of this relationship. It is argu…
Lesbian and gay theory, sexuality and citizenship
David Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities, (Routledge, London 1993). 352pp. ISBN 0–4150–058007 Didi Herman, Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Equality, (University of Toronto Press, London 1994). ix+198pp. ISBN 0–8020–7231–3. Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy, (Polity Press, Cambridge 1992). 212pp. ISBN 0–8047–2214–5. Ken Plummer, Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds,…
The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights
This introduction provides a brief overview of key political developments in global lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizing and advocacy over the past three decades as well as a summary of recent academic research and debates on these issues in politics, sociology and other disciplines. It introduces the three questions addressed by the volume's subsequent contributions: (1) How can recent global developments related to LGBT huma…
Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse
This article presents a critique of the concepts 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity', which are being employed to contest global human rights discourses by prevailing international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and human rights activist networks - notably in the Declaration of Montreal (2006) and, especially, the Yogyakarta Principles (2007). Theoretical analysis, informed by social theory and queer theory, is presented of …
Sociology and human rights
Sociologists have struggled to negotiate their relationship to human rights, yet human rights are now increasingly the focus of innovative sociological analysis. This opening contribution to ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ analyses how the relationship between sociology and human rights could be better conceptualised and taken forward in the future. The historical development of the sociology of human rights is first examined, with …
Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom
The so-called 'gay age of consent' was the most high-profile issue in UK lesbian, gay and bisexual politics during the 1990s. Campaigning for an equal age of consent provoked a series of extended public and parliamentary debates, concluding with the passage of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act (2000).This article analyses these debates to reveal emerging social relationships between heterosexuality and homosexuality. It is argued that age of co…
Regulation of Sexuality
Journal Article Regulation of Sexuality: Age of Consent, Section 28 and Sex Education Get access Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, 1 July 2001, Pages 495–508, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.3.495 Published: 01 July 2001
Comparative colonialisms for queer analysis
Comparative analysis of colonialisms is of critical importance, and hence this article proposes and instigates such systematic comparative research with respect to same-sex sexualities and gender diversity. We offer a historical sociological comparison of the Portuguese and British empires analysing relevant regulation, in relation to two African contexts: Mozambique, which decriminalised same-sex sexual acts in 2015, and Kenya, where criminalisa…
Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics
This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a 'critical model of the boomerang effect', that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink's well-known model of the 'boomerang effect', from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations includin…
Analysing African Advances Against Homophobia in Mozambique
Homosexuality and the New Right
This article addresses the relationship between the New Right and the politics of homosexuality in the United Kingdom. It begins by outlining recent political conflicts surrounding attempts to equalise the 'gay age of consent' and to repeal Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988). The article then examines the New Right's relationship to homosexuality in the 1980s, and the history of socio-political analyses of this relationship. It is argu…
Inventing a ‘Lesbian Age of Consent’? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the UK
This article analyses historical and contemporary debates over age of consent legislation regulating sex between women in the UK. A minimum age for sexual activity between females was created by the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922, which removed ‘consent’ as a defence to the offence of ‘indecent assault’ against a girl under the age of 16, yet prosecutions remained extremely rare until recent years. The article analyses parliamentary debates surr…
LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts
This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK's leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement with the Commonwealth - particularly through forming The Commonwealth Equality Network, comprising national NGOs. A contribution is made to sociological and critical analysis of transnational LGBTI movements, through argument for a new analytical framework combining …
Lesbian and gay theory, sexuality and citizenship
David Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities, (Routledge, London 1993). 352pp. ISBN 0–4150–058007 Didi Herman, Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Equality, (University of Toronto Press, London 1994). ix+198pp. ISBN 0–8020–7231–3. Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy, (Polity Press, Cambridge 1992). 212pp. ISBN 0–8047–2214–5. Ken Plummer, Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds,…
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa
To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data are drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and imp…
Human rights, sexual orientation and the generation of childhoods
What is the relationship between global struggles over ‘sexual orientation’ and human rights, and sociological, legal and ‘queer’ understandings of sexuality and childhood? On 2 July 2009, the struggle in India to end the criminalisation of adult same-sex sexual behaviour by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a legacy of the British Empire, achieved a landmark victory. The Delhi High Court ruled in favour of a petition by the Naz Foundation, s…
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion
This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing government—using this case to propose a multi-dimensional critical framework for understanding when states fund LGBT+ development. The UK’s first LGBT+ themed international development project was Strong in Diversity—Bold on Inclusion, from 2019, pla…
Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality
Journal Article Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality Get access Jeffrey Weeks, The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life, Routledge, 2007; 283 pp.; ISBN 978-0-415-42201-7. Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citize…
Lesbian and gay theory, sexuality and citizenship
David Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities, (Routledge, London 1993). 352pp. ISBN 0–4150–058007 Didi Herman, Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Equality, (University of Toronto Press, London 1994). ix+198pp. ISBN 0–8020–7231–3. Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy, (Polity Press, Cambridge 1992). 212pp. ISBN 0–8047–2214–5. Ken Plummer, Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds,…
Homosexuality and the New Right
This article addresses the relationship between the New Right and the politics of homosexuality in the United Kingdom. It begins by outlining recent political conflicts surrounding attempts to equalise the 'gay age of consent' and to repeal Section 28 of the Local Government Act (1988). The article then examines the New Right's relationship to homosexuality in the 1980s, and the history of socio-political analyses of this relationship. It is argu…
Regulation of Sexuality
Journal Article Regulation of Sexuality: Age of Consent, Section 28 and Sex Education Get access Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, 1 July 2001, Pages 495–508, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/54.3.495 Published: 01 July 2001
Inventing a ‘Lesbian Age of Consent’? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the UK
This article analyses historical and contemporary debates over age of consent legislation regulating sex between women in the UK. A minimum age for sexual activity between females was created by the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1922, which removed ‘consent’ as a defence to the offence of ‘indecent assault’ against a girl under the age of 16, yet prosecutions remained extremely rare until recent years. The article analyses parliamentary debates surr…
Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom
The so-called 'gay age of consent' was the most high-profile issue in UK lesbian, gay and bisexual politics during the 1990s. Campaigning for an equal age of consent provoked a series of extended public and parliamentary debates, concluding with the passage of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act (2000).This article analyses these debates to reveal emerging social relationships between heterosexuality and homosexuality. It is argued that age of co…
The Age of Consent
The Age of Consent; Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship addresses the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should be regulated. The text includes: ·A unique history of age of conse
The Fixity of Sexual Identities in the Public Sphere
This article analyses the persistence of the heterosexual/homosexual binary in contemporary society, by examining the circulation of knowledge-claims concerning the age at which the ‘fixity’ of ‘sexual orientation’ is established. It examines how the ‘scientific’ claims of medical authorities have been utilized in recent debates in the UK over equalization of the age of consent, and argues that such claims have persisted in influence through deba…
Sexual Politics
“Sexual politics” refers to the contestation of power relations with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality. The concept originates in the second‐wave feminist movement which emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s in western societies. Its definitive textual origin is Kate Millett's Sexual Politics , first published in 1970, one of the founding works of the emerging women's liberation movement which provided a social and political analysis of “patria…
Analysing Sexualities in the Shadow of War
No abstract available
Critique of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in human rights discourse
This article presents a critique of the concepts 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity', which are being employed to contest global human rights discourses by prevailing international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and human rights activist networks - notably in the Declaration of Montreal (2006) and, especially, the Yogyakarta Principles (2007). Theoretical analysis, informed by social theory and queer theory, is presented of …
The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights
This introduction provides a brief overview of key political developments in global lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizing and advocacy over the past three decades as well as a summary of recent academic research and debates on these issues in politics, sociology and other disciplines. It introduces the three questions addressed by the volume's subsequent contributions: (1) How can recent global developments related to LGBT huma…
Sociology and human rights
Sociologists have struggled to negotiate their relationship to human rights, yet human rights are now increasingly the focus of innovative sociological analysis. This opening contribution to ‘Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements’ analyses how the relationship between sociology and human rights could be better conceptualised and taken forward in the future. The historical development of the sociology of human rights is first examined, with …
Human rights, sexual orientation and the generation of childhoods
What is the relationship between global struggles over ‘sexual orientation’ and human rights, and sociological, legal and ‘queer’ understandings of sexuality and childhood? On 2 July 2009, the struggle in India to end the criminalisation of adult same-sex sexual behaviour by Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, a legacy of the British Empire, achieved a landmark victory. The Delhi High Court ruled in favour of a petition by the Naz Foundation, s…
Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality
Journal Article Jeffrey Weeks and the History of Sexuality Get access Jeffrey Weeks, The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life, Routledge, 2007; 283 pp.; ISBN 978-0-415-42201-7. Matthew Waites Matthew Waites Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citize…
United Kingdom
This chapter explains the argument that both the latter aspects of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals (LGB) politics in the UK, in part, can be explained by the unfavourable political opportunity structures in which these movements had to operate during most of the second half of the twentieth century. It outlines the post-war history of LGB movements in the UK and argues that the organization and influence of such movements have been strongly affec…
Sexual Politics
Sexual politics was defined by the feminist Kate Millett in 1970 as encompassing the contestation of power‐structured relationships with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality, and in relation to the social system of patriarchy. Sexual politics thus politicized sociology in its approach to such inequalities, particularly in what was considered private or personal life. The women's liberation movement and the gay liberation movement brought new set…
LGBTI organizations navigating imperial contexts
This article presents the first sustained social analysis of the Kaleidoscope Trust, the UK's leading social movement organization on LGBTI issues internationally, and its engagement with the Commonwealth - particularly through forming The Commonwealth Equality Network, comprising national NGOs. A contribution is made to sociological and critical analysis of transnational LGBTI movements, through argument for a new analytical framework combining …
Genocide and Global Queer Politics
This article presents a critical analysis of the relationship between the concept genocide and global queer politics, offering an original mapping and examination of the discourse of genocide in this respect. Starting from the beginnings of genocide discourse with Lemkin and the Genocide Convention, existing literature is analyzed to reveal circumscribed usage in relation to non-heterosexual lives. The methodology combines analysis of genocide di…
Africa and the Contestation of Sexual and Gender Diversity
This chapter considers sexualities and genders in Africa by exploring the relationship between precolonial, colonial, and current forms of regulation. The field of research on sexual and gender diversity in Africa is introduced, including African lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) and queer research, with an emphasis on the need to challenge homogenizing characterizations of “homophobic Africa.” Differences between European colon…
Comparative colonialisms for queer analysis
Comparative analysis of colonialisms is of critical importance, and hence this article proposes and instigates such systematic comparative research with respect to same-sex sexualities and gender diversity. We offer a historical sociological comparison of the Portuguese and British empires analysing relevant regulation, in relation to two African contexts: Mozambique, which decriminalised same-sex sexual acts in 2015, and Kenya, where criminalisa…
Decolonizing the boomerang effect in global queer politics
This article proposes a new critical framework for analysing transnational human rights-claiming and contestation: a 'critical model of the boomerang effect', that can embody sociological understanding and insights from decolonizing analyses. The article develops a critique of Keck and Sikkink's well-known model of the 'boomerang effect', from politics and international relations. The new critical model is needed to analyse contestations includin…
Analysing African Advances Against Homophobia in Mozambique
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa
To problematise Western discourses of a homophobic Africa, there is a need to analyse evidence of homophobia and its interplay with other attitudes, in ways that explore contextual differences. Hence, this article offers an original sociological analysis of quantitative data on homophobia in African states, examining how this inter-relates with xenophobia. Social attitudes data are drawn from the Afrobarometer research project as a unique and imp…
The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion
This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing government—using this case to propose a multi-dimensional critical framework for understanding when states fund LGBT+ development. The UK’s first LGBT+ themed international development project was Strong in Diversity—Bold on Inclusion, from 2019, pla…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (17 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (14 works) · Human sexuality (14 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (12 works) · Lesbian (10 works) · Human rights (9 works)