A Javaid
Biographic Data
| ID | 39852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Javaid |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Javaid |
| SIGNATURE | JAVAID A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0329-2398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Finding him: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective of Romantic and Queer Love
While being firmly rooted in and committed to the Western context, within which this piece is located, the discussions are not generalized since the aim of this paper is to offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of romantic and queer love. The theoretical lens applied here is symbolic interactionism. The examples of gay love that are examined include the following: gay open relationships; queer monogamy; and gay love in gay friendships. The a…
Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’
I demonstrate the ways in which constructions of knowledge about sexual violence metaphorically and symbolically transpose stigma onto me for researching a stigmatized topic. In every human interaction, we all run the risk of stigma. I was stigmatized for revealing my association with the topic of sexual violence. In this article, I detail certain encounters of running into this stigma, using autoethnography. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s poetic writin…
The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single
Sociology has neglected the terrain of the gay Muslim single as a sociological phenomenon. Produced and managed via meaningful social conduct, the gay Muslim single often holds negative symbolic and cultural worth, one of lacking identification and presence. The stigma of the gay Muslim single is actively reproduced through social and power relations. I examine multiple stigmas and dichotomies by using autoethnography to illustrate the human live…
What Support? Foucault, Power, and the Construction of Rape
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies, England. Using sociological, cultural, and post-structural theoretical frameworks, mainly the works of Foucault, I demonstrate the ways in which male rape is constructed and reconstructed in such agencies. Social and power relations, social structures, and time and place shape their discourses, cultures, and constructions pertaining to male rape…
Can You Hear Me? I’m Right Here”: Voluntary Sector’s Treatment of Rape Victims
The Haunting of Hate: Rape as a Form of Hate Crime
Hear my screams: An auto-ethnographic account of the police
Other writers, notably police researchers, infrequently discuss the problems and difficulties that they encounter in and outside of fieldwork when doing research on the police. In this article, I piece together some critical and personal reflections of researching the police to provide nuanced information that can help other writers to learn from my own experiences of researching the police and also help them to navigate their own experiences of …
Me, myself and I: The sociology of policing male rape, the gaze of the ‘Other’
In this paper, the bodies of male rape victims as the ‘other’ are problematized. The social and cultural constructions of male rape within a policing context are examined since the police play a major role in impeding the progress of male rape cases. The author draws on police data, generated from interviews and qualitative questionnaires with the police, to illustrate the problems with policing male rape in England, UK. While the author provides…
The interconnectedness of chemsex, drugs, sexual promiscuity and sexual violence
In this paper, the author attempts to build a critical analysis of the interconnections between chemsex, drugs, sexual promiscuity and male sexual violence. The notion of power is understood within the context of chemsex, along with issues of drug taking and sexual promiscuity since these activities often manifest in chemsex settings. By formulating a theoretical and conceptual analysis, drawing on hegemonic masculinity and normative heterosexual…
The unheard victims: Gender, policing and sexual violence
72,000 men in England and Wales are victims of sexual violence each year. While sexual violence against men is slowly becoming recognised as a sociological and criminological issue because victims are steadily coming forward due to changes in policy and practice, gradually improving the reporting rate that causes sociologists and criminologists to take notice of a necessity to address the issue, there still however remains a noticeable gap regard…
The penis is a weapon of power: A Feminist and Hate Crime Interpretation of Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper critically discusses understandings of male rape and male sexual assault in the UK, using a sample size of 70 respondents who consist of police officers and voluntary agency practitioners to shed light on their understandings and explanations of male rape, since they intimately deal with male rape victims/offenders. An analysis of how they make sense of male rape, using radical feminist and hate crime perspectives as frameworks to eluc…
In The Shadows: Making Sense of Gay Male Rape Victims' Silence, Suffering, and Invisibility
This article conceptually and theoretically explores, in particular, gay male rape victims' experiences and silences. This is done through examining and bringing together empirical findings from different studies relating to gender, sexuality, masculinity, police and policing, and, more broadly, sexual violence. The theoretical backdrop for this article is hegemonic masculinity to help elucidate gay male rape victims' experiences and silences. Th…
Making the invisible visible: (Un)meeting Male Rape Victims’ Needs in the Third Sector
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the voluntary sector meets male rape victims’ needs in England, UK. The author’s contribution represents an attempt to piece together some of the voluntary sector’s responses to male rape victims in England, UK and examine whether they meet male rape victims’ needs. Design/methodology/approach The author draws on data collected from semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires w…
Male rape, masculinities, and sexualities
Moving through shadows: Police, policing and male rape
From a human rights perspective, the present work aims to provide a critical analysis of the approaches used by the police and of the ways in which officers respond to male rape victims in England. Examining police attitudes towards, and responses to, male rape victims can help widen our understanding of policing male rape and the voids that need filling. I draw on primary data, which was collected through the use of semi-structured interviews an…
The invisible, the alien and the marginal: Social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies
Drawing on a Foucauldian approach and on interview data including male rape counsellors, therapists and voluntary agency caseworkers ( N=70), the author attempts to make sense of the different ways in which male rape is constructed in order to better understand how it is considered and responded to in current English society. The qualitative data herein, which were collected through semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires, are t…
The Unknown Victims: Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, and Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper adopts the theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity to elucidate and make sense of male sexual victimisation. Critically evaluating the empirical data, which comprises of police officers and practitioners in voluntary agencies (N = 70), that this paper offers, I argue that gender expectations, hegemonic masculinities and sexism prevail in societies, state and voluntary agencies. It has been found that, because male rape victims e…
Masculinities, sexualities and identities: Understanding HIV positive and HIV negative male rape victims
This empirical article focuses on how HIV intersects with male rape, and how the virus challenges and weakens male rape victims' sense of masculinity. Drawing on hegemonic masculinity to elucidate the different ways in which men as victims of rape cope with their disease, the article argues that male victims handle the effects of rape themselves to keep their masculinity intact. Drawing on interviews with HIV positive and non-HIV positive male ra…
Voluntary Agencies’ Responses to, and Attitudes toward Male Rape: Issues and Concerns
Feminism, masculinity and male rape: Bringing Male Rape 'Out of the Closet
Feminist research has played a pivotal role in uncovering the extent and nature of male violence against women and suggests that the main motivations for rape are the need for power, control and domination. This paper argues that, although feminist explanations of rape are robust and comprehensive, male victims of rape have largely been excluded from this field of research. While feminism has enabled the victimisation of women to be recognised, f…
Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape
This paper provides a critical review of the literature surrounding male rape, aimed at exploring how male rape myths shape society’s responses and attitudes to male victims of rape and integrates the literature from a theory driven perspective. In doing so, this theoretical paper reveals information relating to the barriers to recognition of male rape. These barriers are male rape myths that prevent male rape victims from coming forward and seek…
The Dark Side of Men: The Nature of Masculinity and Its Uneasy Relationship With Male Rape
This theoretical and conceptual article critically examines the issue of male rape in England and Wales, United Kingdom. Bringing different studies together from disparate disciplines reveal that men’s experiences of rape and sexual assault are similar to women’s sexual assaults and rapes, although there are some gendered differences as to how men deal with these crimes, particularly in regard to men’s willingness to report to officials and mascu…
Relationship between indices of adiposity obtained by peripheral quantitative computed tomography and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in pre-pubertal children
In pre-pubertal children, pQCT measures of adiposity are strongly associated with whole-body per cent body fat. This reproducible method could be an alternative technique to estimate body composition in this population
Relationship between indices of adiposity obtained by peripheral quantitative computed tomography and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in pre-pubertal children
Discordance of international adiposity classifications in Australian boys and girls – The Look study
In contrast to the BMI-based charts, there were considerable variations in depicted incidences of obesity between the %BF-based charts. These discordances were considered to result from previously reported variation within and between BIA and DXA %BF assessments underlying the charts. The present study highlights the need for valid, reliable, unchanging BIA and DXA procedures
The Dark Side of Men: The Nature of Masculinity and Its Uneasy Relationship With Male Rape
This theoretical and conceptual article critically examines the issue of male rape in England and Wales, United Kingdom. Bringing different studies together from disparate disciplines reveal that men’s experiences of rape and sexual assault are similar to women’s sexual assaults and rapes, although there are some gendered differences as to how men deal with these crimes, particularly in regard to men’s willingness to report to officials and mascu…
Voluntary Agencies’ Responses to, and Attitudes toward Male Rape: Issues and Concerns
The unheard victims: Gender, policing and sexual violence
72,000 men in England and Wales are victims of sexual violence each year. While sexual violence against men is slowly becoming recognised as a sociological and criminological issue because victims are steadily coming forward due to changes in policy and practice, gradually improving the reporting rate that causes sociologists and criminologists to take notice of a necessity to address the issue, there still however remains a noticeable gap regard…
The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single
Sociology has neglected the terrain of the gay Muslim single as a sociological phenomenon. Produced and managed via meaningful social conduct, the gay Muslim single often holds negative symbolic and cultural worth, one of lacking identification and presence. The stigma of the gay Muslim single is actively reproduced through social and power relations. I examine multiple stigmas and dichotomies by using autoethnography to illustrate the human live…
Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape
This paper provides a critical review of the literature surrounding male rape, aimed at exploring how male rape myths shape society’s responses and attitudes to male victims of rape and integrates the literature from a theory driven perspective. In doing so, this theoretical paper reveals information relating to the barriers to recognition of male rape. These barriers are male rape myths that prevent male rape victims from coming forward and seek…
The Unknown Victims: Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, and Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper adopts the theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity to elucidate and make sense of male sexual victimisation. Critically evaluating the empirical data, which comprises of police officers and practitioners in voluntary agencies (N = 70), that this paper offers, I argue that gender expectations, hegemonic masculinities and sexism prevail in societies, state and voluntary agencies. It has been found that, because male rape victims e…
Feminism, masculinity and male rape: Bringing Male Rape 'Out of the Closet
Feminist research has played a pivotal role in uncovering the extent and nature of male violence against women and suggests that the main motivations for rape are the need for power, control and domination. This paper argues that, although feminist explanations of rape are robust and comprehensive, male victims of rape have largely been excluded from this field of research. While feminism has enabled the victimisation of women to be recognised, f…
Masculinities, sexualities and identities: Understanding HIV positive and HIV negative male rape victims
This empirical article focuses on how HIV intersects with male rape, and how the virus challenges and weakens male rape victims' sense of masculinity. Drawing on hegemonic masculinity to elucidate the different ways in which men as victims of rape cope with their disease, the article argues that male victims handle the effects of rape themselves to keep their masculinity intact. Drawing on interviews with HIV positive and non-HIV positive male ra…
What Support? Foucault, Power, and the Construction of Rape
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies, England. Using sociological, cultural, and post-structural theoretical frameworks, mainly the works of Foucault, I demonstrate the ways in which male rape is constructed and reconstructed in such agencies. Social and power relations, social structures, and time and place shape their discourses, cultures, and constructions pertaining to male rape…
Can You Hear Me? I’m Right Here”: Voluntary Sector’s Treatment of Rape Victims
Hear my screams: An auto-ethnographic account of the police
Other writers, notably police researchers, infrequently discuss the problems and difficulties that they encounter in and outside of fieldwork when doing research on the police. In this article, I piece together some critical and personal reflections of researching the police to provide nuanced information that can help other writers to learn from my own experiences of researching the police and also help them to navigate their own experiences of …
The penis is a weapon of power: A Feminist and Hate Crime Interpretation of Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper critically discusses understandings of male rape and male sexual assault in the UK, using a sample size of 70 respondents who consist of police officers and voluntary agency practitioners to shed light on their understandings and explanations of male rape, since they intimately deal with male rape victims/offenders. An analysis of how they make sense of male rape, using radical feminist and hate crime perspectives as frameworks to eluc…
Making the invisible visible: (Un)meeting Male Rape Victims’ Needs in the Third Sector
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the voluntary sector meets male rape victims’ needs in England, UK. The author’s contribution represents an attempt to piece together some of the voluntary sector’s responses to male rape victims in England, UK and examine whether they meet male rape victims’ needs. Design/methodology/approach The author draws on data collected from semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires w…
Male rape, masculinities, and sexualities
The invisible, the alien and the marginal: Social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies
Drawing on a Foucauldian approach and on interview data including male rape counsellors, therapists and voluntary agency caseworkers ( N=70), the author attempts to make sense of the different ways in which male rape is constructed in order to better understand how it is considered and responded to in current English society. The qualitative data herein, which were collected through semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires, are t…
Discordance of international adiposity classifications in Australian boys and girls – The Look study
In contrast to the BMI-based charts, there were considerable variations in depicted incidences of obesity between the %BF-based charts. These discordances were considered to result from previously reported variation within and between BIA and DXA %BF assessments underlying the charts. The present study highlights the need for valid, reliable, unchanging BIA and DXA procedures
Relationship between indices of adiposity obtained by peripheral quantitative computed tomography and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in pre-pubertal children
In pre-pubertal children, pQCT measures of adiposity are strongly associated with whole-body per cent body fat. This reproducible method could be an alternative technique to estimate body composition in this population
Relationship between indices of adiposity obtained by peripheral quantitative computed tomography and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in pre-pubertal children
Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape
This paper provides a critical review of the literature surrounding male rape, aimed at exploring how male rape myths shape society’s responses and attitudes to male victims of rape and integrates the literature from a theory driven perspective. In doing so, this theoretical paper reveals information relating to the barriers to recognition of male rape. These barriers are male rape myths that prevent male rape victims from coming forward and seek…
The Dark Side of Men: The Nature of Masculinity and Its Uneasy Relationship With Male Rape
This theoretical and conceptual article critically examines the issue of male rape in England and Wales, United Kingdom. Bringing different studies together from disparate disciplines reveal that men’s experiences of rape and sexual assault are similar to women’s sexual assaults and rapes, although there are some gendered differences as to how men deal with these crimes, particularly in regard to men’s willingness to report to officials and mascu…
Voluntary Agencies’ Responses to, and Attitudes toward Male Rape: Issues and Concerns
Feminism, masculinity and male rape: Bringing Male Rape 'Out of the Closet
Feminist research has played a pivotal role in uncovering the extent and nature of male violence against women and suggests that the main motivations for rape are the need for power, control and domination. This paper argues that, although feminist explanations of rape are robust and comprehensive, male victims of rape have largely been excluded from this field of research. While feminism has enabled the victimisation of women to be recognised, f…
In The Shadows: Making Sense of Gay Male Rape Victims' Silence, Suffering, and Invisibility
This article conceptually and theoretically explores, in particular, gay male rape victims' experiences and silences. This is done through examining and bringing together empirical findings from different studies relating to gender, sexuality, masculinity, police and policing, and, more broadly, sexual violence. The theoretical backdrop for this article is hegemonic masculinity to help elucidate gay male rape victims' experiences and silences. Th…
Making the invisible visible: (Un)meeting Male Rape Victims’ Needs in the Third Sector
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the voluntary sector meets male rape victims’ needs in England, UK. The author’s contribution represents an attempt to piece together some of the voluntary sector’s responses to male rape victims in England, UK and examine whether they meet male rape victims’ needs. Design/methodology/approach The author draws on data collected from semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires w…
Male rape, masculinities, and sexualities
Moving through shadows: Police, policing and male rape
From a human rights perspective, the present work aims to provide a critical analysis of the approaches used by the police and of the ways in which officers respond to male rape victims in England. Examining police attitudes towards, and responses to, male rape victims can help widen our understanding of policing male rape and the voids that need filling. I draw on primary data, which was collected through the use of semi-structured interviews an…
The invisible, the alien and the marginal: Social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies
Drawing on a Foucauldian approach and on interview data including male rape counsellors, therapists and voluntary agency caseworkers ( N=70), the author attempts to make sense of the different ways in which male rape is constructed in order to better understand how it is considered and responded to in current English society. The qualitative data herein, which were collected through semi-structured interviews and qualitative questionnaires, are t…
The Unknown Victims: Hegemonic Masculinity, Masculinities, and Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper adopts the theoretical framework of hegemonic masculinity to elucidate and make sense of male sexual victimisation. Critically evaluating the empirical data, which comprises of police officers and practitioners in voluntary agencies (N = 70), that this paper offers, I argue that gender expectations, hegemonic masculinities and sexism prevail in societies, state and voluntary agencies. It has been found that, because male rape victims e…
Masculinities, sexualities and identities: Understanding HIV positive and HIV negative male rape victims
This empirical article focuses on how HIV intersects with male rape, and how the virus challenges and weakens male rape victims' sense of masculinity. Drawing on hegemonic masculinity to elucidate the different ways in which men as victims of rape cope with their disease, the article argues that male victims handle the effects of rape themselves to keep their masculinity intact. Drawing on interviews with HIV positive and non-HIV positive male ra…
Me, myself and I: The sociology of policing male rape, the gaze of the ‘Other’
In this paper, the bodies of male rape victims as the ‘other’ are problematized. The social and cultural constructions of male rape within a policing context are examined since the police play a major role in impeding the progress of male rape cases. The author draws on police data, generated from interviews and qualitative questionnaires with the police, to illustrate the problems with policing male rape in England, UK. While the author provides…
The interconnectedness of chemsex, drugs, sexual promiscuity and sexual violence
In this paper, the author attempts to build a critical analysis of the interconnections between chemsex, drugs, sexual promiscuity and male sexual violence. The notion of power is understood within the context of chemsex, along with issues of drug taking and sexual promiscuity since these activities often manifest in chemsex settings. By formulating a theoretical and conceptual analysis, drawing on hegemonic masculinity and normative heterosexual…
The unheard victims: Gender, policing and sexual violence
72,000 men in England and Wales are victims of sexual violence each year. While sexual violence against men is slowly becoming recognised as a sociological and criminological issue because victims are steadily coming forward due to changes in policy and practice, gradually improving the reporting rate that causes sociologists and criminologists to take notice of a necessity to address the issue, there still however remains a noticeable gap regard…
The penis is a weapon of power: A Feminist and Hate Crime Interpretation of Male Sexual Victimisation
This paper critically discusses understandings of male rape and male sexual assault in the UK, using a sample size of 70 respondents who consist of police officers and voluntary agency practitioners to shed light on their understandings and explanations of male rape, since they intimately deal with male rape victims/offenders. An analysis of how they make sense of male rape, using radical feminist and hate crime perspectives as frameworks to eluc…
What Support? Foucault, Power, and the Construction of Rape
This paper is concerned with the social and cultural constructions of male rape in voluntary agencies, England. Using sociological, cultural, and post-structural theoretical frameworks, mainly the works of Foucault, I demonstrate the ways in which male rape is constructed and reconstructed in such agencies. Social and power relations, social structures, and time and place shape their discourses, cultures, and constructions pertaining to male rape…
Can You Hear Me? I’m Right Here”: Voluntary Sector’s Treatment of Rape Victims
The Haunting of Hate: Rape as a Form of Hate Crime
Hear my screams: An auto-ethnographic account of the police
Other writers, notably police researchers, infrequently discuss the problems and difficulties that they encounter in and outside of fieldwork when doing research on the police. In this article, I piece together some critical and personal reflections of researching the police to provide nuanced information that can help other writers to learn from my own experiences of researching the police and also help them to navigate their own experiences of …
Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’
I demonstrate the ways in which constructions of knowledge about sexual violence metaphorically and symbolically transpose stigma onto me for researching a stigmatized topic. In every human interaction, we all run the risk of stigma. I was stigmatized for revealing my association with the topic of sexual violence. In this article, I detail certain encounters of running into this stigma, using autoethnography. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s poetic writin…
The Haunting of Shame: Autoethnography and the Multivalent Stigma of Being Queer, Muslim, and Single
Sociology has neglected the terrain of the gay Muslim single as a sociological phenomenon. Produced and managed via meaningful social conduct, the gay Muslim single often holds negative symbolic and cultural worth, one of lacking identification and presence. The stigma of the gay Muslim single is actively reproduced through social and power relations. I examine multiple stigmas and dichotomies by using autoethnography to illustrate the human live…
Finding him: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective of Romantic and Queer Love
While being firmly rooted in and committed to the Western context, within which this piece is located, the discussions are not generalized since the aim of this paper is to offer a critical and theoretical appraisal of romantic and queer love. The theoretical lens applied here is symbolic interactionism. The examples of gay love that are examined include the following: gay open relationships; queer monogamy; and gay love in gay friendships. The a…
Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Criminology (19 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (18 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Human sexuality (9 works)