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B Heaphy

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ID4691
NOMEB Heaphy
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SOBRENOMEHeaphy
ASSINATURAHEAPHY B
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Manchester
ORCID0000-0002-8508-6522
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TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES188
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1998
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H8
  • Critical Friendship in the Modern World

    Open Access•Katherine Davies, B Heaphy et al.•BOOK•Critical Friendship in the Modern…•2026

    Friendship is a critically important aspect of our lives, but is it always an unassailably 'good thing'? This book begins with the innovative premise that friendship is inherently complex and characterized by opposing qualities: it is both pleasurable and fraught, private and public, and inclusive and exclusionary. Rather than simply celebrating friendship as universally beneficial or worrying about its decline amid rising social disconnection, L…

  • Gender, sexuality and viral safety

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2026

    This paper examines the role of dating apps as mediators of intimacy and risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing quantitative and qualitative data from a UK based study of heterosexual and LGBQ+ people’s (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer plus ‘other’ identified) dating app use, we investigate how users navigated the tensions between their desires for intimate and social connections and the imperatives of viral safety. Existing studies of dating a…

  • Can dating app cultures support emotional health and well-being in future pandemics

    Open Access•B Heaphy, Jaime García-Iglesias et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Health & Sexuality•2026

    Drawing on survey and interview data from a UK-based study of heterosexual and LGBT+ people's dating app use before, during and after the COVID-19 crisis, this paper explores the resources that such apps provided for supporting emotional health during the pandemic and the possibilities they offer for promoting well-being in future pandemics. The research adopted a mixed method approach and was unique in its engagement with gender and sexuality di…

  • Time Well Spent? Rhythms of Dating on Apps before, during and after Covid-19 Social Restrictions

    Open Access•N Yodovich, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2026•Referências: 28

    This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the disruption of temporal and rhythm norms among dating app users. Based on 53 retrospective interviews, the study found a transformation from short and quick interactions aimed at finding ideal partners to ‘slow intimacy’ characterised by deeper, prolonged conversations. As restrictions lifted, there was a return to previous dating habits, highlighting how what was experienced …

  • Beyond swipes

    Open Access•N Yodovich, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociology•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 11

    This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dating app users’ experiences, revealing how it brought life politics to the forefront. Through 53 in-depth interviews, it investigates the evolution of the dating apps feature, ‘I’m vaccinated’ badges, from symbols of vaccination status to indicators of political attitudes. Users used the badges for self-representation, seeking political homophily and rejecting those with different att…

  • Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•Citada por: 3•Referências: 22

    There is an increased reliance, since COVID-19, on online methods in qualitative research for participant recruitment and data collection. While online methods have some clear advantages, they have also raised 'new' concerns about fraudulent participation in qualitative research that can hamper research rigour. Drawing on a case study of two of our own UK-based projects which investigated intersections of health, sexuality, and social connections…

  • Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Humanities•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

    In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportunities and challenges inherent in these collaborations, paying special attention to privacy, trust, and user care in a digital environment.Despite their potential as targeted health promotion tools, dating apps raise significant ethical concerns, includin…

  • Exploring Dating App Intimacies During Covid-19 in the UK

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2024•Citada por: 5•Referências: 50

    This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these influenced/were influenced by different gendered and sexual cultures of relating; and their impact on personal resilience, viral risk, and wellbeing. The project examines diverse gendered and sexual cultures, examining the experiences of heterosexuals and LGBT+ communities. Thro…

  • An Intimate Revolution

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, Jaime Garcia Iglesias et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    This paper investigates the changes in digital practices of intimacy during the COVID-19 social distancing period in the UK, and whether these transformations have persisted in the ‘new normal’. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from 824 adults who used dating apps during the pandemic, and conducting 60 in-depth interviews. The study aimed to understand the digital intimate practices of hete…

  • Reinvigorating research on divorce

    B Heaphy, J Hodgson•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2023•Referências: 10

    There is a dearth of research on the dissolution of legally formalised same-sex relationships, which can be partly explained by same-sex marriage and civil partnership being relatively recent possibilities. However, it is also the case that divorce as a topic of research has been marginalised in the renewed interest in family and relationships that has focused on diverse intimacies, family forms, family practices, friendships and personal life. T…

  • Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships

    Open Access•B Heaphy, J Hodgson•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2021

    This article revisits the personal stories that younger male civil partners told about their sexual practices, in what most termed their ‘marriage’, to generate insights into the extent to which they succumbed to the dangers that critics of same-sex marriage foretold. It provides a baseline analysis against which the findings of future studies of both heterosexual and same-sex marriages and civil partnerships can be compared. The data we discuss …

  • Reflexive convention

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 59

    Drawing on an analysis of qualitative interview data from a study of formalized same-sex relationships (civil partnerships) this paper examines the enduring significance of marriage and family as social institutions. In doing so, it intervenes in current debates in the sociology of family and personal life about how such institutions are undermined by reflexivity or bolstered by convention. Against the backdrop of dominating sociological frames f…

  • Troubling Traditional and Conventional Families? Formalised Same-Sex Couples and 'The Ordinary

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Citada por: 12•Referências: 27

    This article explores the value of the concept of 'the ordinary' in analysing formalised couple and family relationships. This is a concept that is coming to the fore in discussions of same-sex relationships. It is often associated with heterosexual tradition, convention, and normativity with respect to the social institutions of marriage and family and has also been defended as representing the everyday politics of contemporary post-traditional,…

  • Situating Lesbian and Gay Cultures of Class Identification

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Cultural Sociology•2013•Citada por: 2•Referências: 28

    How significant are class identities to lesbians and gay men? In the 1990s some theorists implied that lesbian and gay identities were classless or post-class ones. This paper challenges this idea by considering personal narratives of class (dis-)identification that were generated via interviews with lesbians and gay men in the 1990s. The salience of class was explicitly and implicitly articulated in narratives of 'accepting', 'rejecting', 'ambig…

  • Scripting Civil Partnerships

    Open Access•B Heaphy, Anna Einarsdóttir•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2013•Citada por: 18•Referências: 29

    Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…

  • Same‐sex marriage/civil unions

    Open Access•B Heaphy•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2012

    Same‐sex marriage refers to a union by two people of the same sex that is legally sanctioned by the state, where identical rights and responsibilities are afforded same‐sex and heterosexual married couples. The term “gay marriage” is popularly used to refer to same‐sex partnerships or cohabiting relationships that are formally registered in some way as a “civil union” (variously known as civil partnerships, registered partnerships, and registered…

  • Critical friendships

    B Heaphy, Katherine Davies•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2012•Citada por: 18

    A growing body of social-scientific work has explored friendship as a source of relational goods and as a model for democratic relating. Friendships have been seen as resources for the self, sources of emotional, social and material supports, as central to elective families and affective communities and as pure relationships. Also, an egalitarian friendship ‘ethos’ has been proffered as a solution to the power imbalances associated with other rel…

  • Difficult Friendships and Ontological Insecurity

    Open Access•Carol Smart, Katherine Davies et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 28•Referências: 16

    In this paper we explore some of the negative aspects of friendship. In so doing we do not seek to join the debate about whether or not friendships are more or less important than other relationships but rather to explore precisely how significant friendships can be. Based on written accounts submitted to the British Mass Observation Project, we analyse how friendship, when it goes wrong, can challenge one's sense of self and even produce ontolog…

  • Gay identities and the culture of class

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2011

    Material queer analyses argue the urgent need to reincorporate class to comprehend sexual (re)formations in advanced capitalism, and some theorists propose a revitalized historical materialism as a framework for doing this. In contrast, this article illuminates the significance of class for late modern sexualities by taking a ‘cultural’ approach to the issue. By analysing gay men’s personal accounts of class (dis-)identification that were told in…

  • Interactions That Matter

    Open Access•Katherine Davies, B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2011•Citada por: 6•Referências: 19

    Against the backdrop of research that has tended to emphasise the positive aspects of non-familial relationships, particularly friendships, this paper considers the methodological challenges involved in generating data about what we term ‘critical associations’: relationships with friends and other associates that are critical in people's lives in both positive and negative ways. The paper focuses on three methods that were used in a multi-facete…

  • Choice and Its Limits in Older Lesbian and Gay Narratives of Relational Life

    B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Journal of GLBT Family Studies•2009

    This article draws from a British empirical study of older gay men and lesbians that explores intimate, family, and community relationships at mid- and later life. The study included a survey of 266 women and men, qualitative interviews with a subsample of 10 men and 10 women, and eight focus groups (with a total of 16 men and 14 women). The article examines how gay men and lesbians over 50 years old structure and negotiate their relational lives…

  • The Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2008•Citada por: 19•Referências: 10

    This article is concerned with sociological conceptualisations of lesbian and gay sexualities as reflexive forms of existence, and identifies core problems with these. Our sociological narratives about lesbian and gay reflexivity tend to be partial in two senses. First, they talk about and envision only very particular - and relatively exclusive - experience, and fail to adequately account for the significance of difference and power in shaping d…

  • Late Modernity and Social Change

    B Heaphy, Jane Franklin•BOOK•Late modernity and social change•2007

    Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating – as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life. Introducing the ideas of founding social thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Freud, and the work of key contemporary theorists, among them Lacan, Foucault, …

  • Lesbian and Gay Families

    Open Access•B Heaphy•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2007•Referências: 1

    In the narrowest sense, the term “lesbian and gay family” refers to lesbian and gay individuals or same‐sex couples and their children. The term is sometimes used to refer to same‐sex partnerships or cohabiting relationships. In the broadest sense, the term can denote social networks that include lesbian or gay individuals and/or couples where some or all of the members self‐define as “family.” These latter arrangements have also been described a…

  • Lesbian, gay and bisexual lives over 50

    B Heaphy, Akt Yip et al.

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  • Difficult Friendships and Ontological Insecurity

    Open Access•Carol Smart, Katherine Davies et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 28•Referências: 16

    In this paper we explore some of the negative aspects of friendship. In so doing we do not seek to join the debate about whether or not friendships are more or less important than other relationships but rather to explore precisely how significant friendships can be. Based on written accounts submitted to the British Mass Observation Project, we analyse how friendship, when it goes wrong, can challenge one's sense of self and even produce ontolog…

  • Ageing in a non-heterosexual context

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip et al.•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•2004•Citada por: 23

    There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gender and disability, influence people's living circumstances and sources of support in later life. While they have been the subject of considerable speculation, ageing in a non-heterosexual context remai…

  • The Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2008•Citada por: 19•Referências: 10

    This article is concerned with sociological conceptualisations of lesbian and gay sexualities as reflexive forms of existence, and identifies core problems with these. Our sociological narratives about lesbian and gay reflexivity tend to be partial in two senses. First, they talk about and envision only very particular - and relatively exclusive - experience, and fail to adequately account for the significance of difference and power in shaping d…

  • Sexualities, Gender and Ageing

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Current Sociology•2007•Citada por: 19•Referências: 14

    The issue of sexuality is under-studied in the sociology of ageing. This article advocates placing sexuality at the centre of our analyses of ageing and later life in late modernity, by illustrating the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article employs personal narratives of lesbians and gay men aged between their fifties and eighties to demonstrate the importance of material, social and cultural resources in shaping their negotiations of age…

  • Scripting Civil Partnerships

    Open Access•B Heaphy, Anna Einarsdóttir•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2013•Citada por: 18•Referências: 29

    Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…

  • Critical friendships

    B Heaphy, Katherine Davies•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2012•Citada por: 18

    A growing body of social-scientific work has explored friendship as a source of relational goods and as a model for democratic relating. Friendships have been seen as resources for the self, sources of emotional, social and material supports, as central to elective families and affective communities and as pure relationships. Also, an egalitarian friendship ‘ethos’ has been proffered as a solution to the power imbalances associated with other rel…

  • Citizenship and Same Sex Relationships

    Open Access•Catherine Donovan, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•1999•Citada por: 13

    In the UK in recent years, a dramatic growth in media concern with same sex relationships has led to the suggestion that the resulting visibility is indicative of the extent to which the intimate lives of non-heterosexuals are becoming more acceptable. In this article we question this using data drawn from the Families of Choice Project, a qualitative research project based on interviews with over a hundred non-heterosexual women and men, which h…

  • Troubling Traditional and Conventional Families? Formalised Same-Sex Couples and 'The Ordinary

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Citada por: 12•Referências: 27

    This article explores the value of the concept of 'the ordinary' in analysing formalised couple and family relationships. This is a concept that is coming to the fore in discussions of same-sex relationships. It is often associated with heterosexual tradition, convention, and normativity with respect to the social institutions of marriage and family and has also been defended as representing the everyday politics of contemporary post-traditional,…

  • Reflexive convention

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 59

    Drawing on an analysis of qualitative interview data from a study of formalized same-sex relationships (civil partnerships) this paper examines the enduring significance of marriage and family as social institutions. In doing so, it intervenes in current debates in the sociology of family and personal life about how such institutions are undermined by reflexivity or bolstered by convention. Against the backdrop of dominating sociological frames f…

  • Uneven Possibilities

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2003•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    The article draws from focus group data generated for a UK study of the life circumstances of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals aged 50 and above, to consider some key elements of the conceptual framework we are developing for understanding the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article considers ways in which non-heterosexual ways of living have been positively evaluated as 'prime' experiments in late modern ways of living, and identifies three…

  • Interactions That Matter

    Open Access•Katherine Davies, B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2011•Citada por: 6•Referências: 19

    Against the backdrop of research that has tended to emphasise the positive aspects of non-familial relationships, particularly friendships, this paper considers the methodological challenges involved in generating data about what we term ‘critical associations’: relationships with friends and other associates that are critical in people's lives in both positive and negative ways. The paper focuses on three methods that were used in a multi-facete…

  • Exploring Dating App Intimacies During Covid-19 in the UK

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2024•Citada por: 5•Referências: 50

    This protocol outlines a mixed-methods study to explore the dynamics of intimacy on dating apps before, during and after the crisis years of COVID-19 in the UK; how these influenced/were influenced by different gendered and sexual cultures of relating; and their impact on personal resilience, viral risk, and wellbeing. The project examines diverse gendered and sexual cultures, examining the experiences of heterosexuals and LGBT+ communities. Thro…

  • Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Society•2006•Citada por: 5•Referências: 3

    This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people's needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article il…

  • Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of 'Suspected Participants

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025•Citada por: 3•Referências: 22

    There is an increased reliance, since COVID-19, on online methods in qualitative research for participant recruitment and data collection. While online methods have some clear advantages, they have also raised 'new' concerns about fraudulent participation in qualitative research that can hamper research rigour. Drawing on a case study of two of our own UK-based projects which investigated intersections of health, sexuality, and social connections…

  • Situating Lesbian and Gay Cultures of Class Identification

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Cultural Sociology•2013•Citada por: 2•Referências: 28

    How significant are class identities to lesbians and gay men? In the 1990s some theorists implied that lesbian and gay identities were classless or post-class ones. This paper challenges this idea by considering personal narratives of class (dis-)identification that were generated via interviews with lesbians and gay men in the 1990s. The salience of class was explicitly and implicitly articulated in narratives of 'accepting', 'rejecting', 'ambig…

  • Beyond swipes

    Open Access•N Yodovich, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sociology•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 11

    This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on dating app users’ experiences, revealing how it brought life politics to the forefront. Through 53 in-depth interviews, it investigates the evolution of the dating apps feature, ‘I’m vaccinated’ badges, from symbols of vaccination status to indicators of political attitudes. Users used the badges for self-representation, seeking political homophily and rejecting those with different att…

  • Dating apps as health allies? Examining the opportunities and challenges of dating apps as partners in public health

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Humanities•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

    In recent years, dating apps have become important allies in public health. In this paper, we explore the implications of partnering with dating apps for health promotion. We consider the opportunities and challenges inherent in these collaborations, paying special attention to privacy, trust, and user care in a digital environment.Despite their potential as targeted health promotion tools, dating apps raise significant ethical concerns, includin…

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    C Lynn Carr, J Weeks et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2002•Citada por: 1

  • That's Like my Life'

    Open Access•B Heaphy, J Weeks et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•1998

    The article considers key methodological issues that have emerged in a study of the structure and meaning of non-heterosexual (lesbian, gay, bisexual or `queer') relationships. Despite an increasing public profile, the developing patterns of `families of choice' remain under-researched, and give rise to important theoretical questions about identity, intimacy and sexuality. The authors discuss the problems of accessing a `hidden' population, non-…

  • Citizenship and Same Sex Relationships

    Open Access•Catherine Donovan, B Heaphy et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•1999•Citada por: 13

    In the UK in recent years, a dramatic growth in media concern with same sex relationships has led to the suggestion that the resulting visibility is indicative of the extent to which the intimate lives of non-heterosexuals are becoming more acceptable. In this article we question this using data drawn from the Families of Choice Project, a qualitative research project based on interviews with over a hundred non-heterosexual women and men, which h…

  • The (Im)possibilities of Living as People with Aids

    Open Access•B Heaphy•CHAPTER•Exploring the Body•2001

    The body has become a primary focus for reflexively constructed narratives of the self in late modern worlds (Giddens 1991; Shilling 1993; Mellor and Shilling 1993). The stories we tell ourselves about 'who we are' are increasingly centred on a concern with our bodies. Because of this, encounters with illness and death can pose a significant threat to the self. This is compounded by the growing absence of collective meanings around death in secul…

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    C Lynn Carr, J Weeks et al.•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2002•Citada por: 1

  • Same Sex Intimacies

    Catherine Donovan, B Heaphy et al.•BOOK•Same Sex Intimacies•2003

    Our families are increasingly a matter of choice, and the choices are widening all the time. This is particularly true of the non-heterosexual world, where the last ten years have seen a popular acceptance of same sex partnerships and, to a lesser extent, of same sex parenting. Based on extensive interviews with people in a variety of non-traditional relationships, this fascinating new book argues that these developments in the non-heterosexual w…

  • Uneven Possibilities

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2003•Citada por: 7•Referências: 8

    The article draws from focus group data generated for a UK study of the life circumstances of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals aged 50 and above, to consider some key elements of the conceptual framework we are developing for understanding the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article considers ways in which non-heterosexual ways of living have been positively evaluated as 'prime' experiments in late modern ways of living, and identifies three…

  • Ageing in a non-heterosexual context

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip et al.•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•2004•Citada por: 23

    There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gender and disability, influence people's living circumstances and sources of support in later life. While they have been the subject of considerable speculation, ageing in a non-heterosexual context remai…

  • Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities

    Open Access•B Heaphy, A K T Yip•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Society•2006•Citada por: 5•Referências: 3

    This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people's needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article il…

  • Late Modernity and Social Change

    B Heaphy, Jane Franklin•BOOK•Late modernity and social change•2007

    Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating – as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life. Introducing the ideas of founding social thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Freud, and the work of key contemporary theorists, among them Lacan, Foucault, …

  • Lesbian and Gay Families

    Open Access•B Heaphy•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2007•Referências: 1

    In the narrowest sense, the term “lesbian and gay family” refers to lesbian and gay individuals or same‐sex couples and their children. The term is sometimes used to refer to same‐sex partnerships or cohabiting relationships. In the broadest sense, the term can denote social networks that include lesbian or gay individuals and/or couples where some or all of the members self‐define as “family.” These latter arrangements have also been described a…

  • Sexualities, Gender and Ageing

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Current Sociology•2007•Citada por: 19•Referências: 14

    The issue of sexuality is under-studied in the sociology of ageing. This article advocates placing sexuality at the centre of our analyses of ageing and later life in late modernity, by illustrating the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article employs personal narratives of lesbians and gay men aged between their fifties and eighties to demonstrate the importance of material, social and cultural resources in shaping their negotiations of age…

  • The Sociology of Lesbian and Gay Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2008•Citada por: 19•Referências: 10

    This article is concerned with sociological conceptualisations of lesbian and gay sexualities as reflexive forms of existence, and identifies core problems with these. Our sociological narratives about lesbian and gay reflexivity tend to be partial in two senses. First, they talk about and envision only very particular - and relatively exclusive - experience, and fail to adequately account for the significance of difference and power in shaping d…

  • Choice and Its Limits in Older Lesbian and Gay Narratives of Relational Life

    B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Journal of GLBT Family Studies•2009

    This article draws from a British empirical study of older gay men and lesbians that explores intimate, family, and community relationships at mid- and later life. The study included a survey of 266 women and men, qualitative interviews with a subsample of 10 men and 10 women, and eight focus groups (with a total of 16 men and 14 women). The article examines how gay men and lesbians over 50 years old structure and negotiate their relational lives…

  • Gay identities and the culture of class

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2011

    Material queer analyses argue the urgent need to reincorporate class to comprehend sexual (re)formations in advanced capitalism, and some theorists propose a revitalized historical materialism as a framework for doing this. In contrast, this article illuminates the significance of class for late modern sexualities by taking a ‘cultural’ approach to the issue. By analysing gay men’s personal accounts of class (dis-)identification that were told in…

  • Interactions That Matter

    Open Access•Katherine Davies, B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations Online•2011•Citada por: 6•Referências: 19

    Against the backdrop of research that has tended to emphasise the positive aspects of non-familial relationships, particularly friendships, this paper considers the methodological challenges involved in generating data about what we term ‘critical associations’: relationships with friends and other associates that are critical in people's lives in both positive and negative ways. The paper focuses on three methods that were used in a multi-facete…

  • Same‐sex marriage/civil unions

    Open Access•B Heaphy•OTHER•The Blackwell Encyclopedia of…•2012

    Same‐sex marriage refers to a union by two people of the same sex that is legally sanctioned by the state, where identical rights and responsibilities are afforded same‐sex and heterosexual married couples. The term “gay marriage” is popularly used to refer to same‐sex partnerships or cohabiting relationships that are formally registered in some way as a “civil union” (variously known as civil partnerships, registered partnerships, and registered…

  • Critical friendships

    B Heaphy, Katherine Davies•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2012•Citada por: 18

    A growing body of social-scientific work has explored friendship as a source of relational goods and as a model for democratic relating. Friendships have been seen as resources for the self, sources of emotional, social and material supports, as central to elective families and affective communities and as pure relationships. Also, an egalitarian friendship ‘ethos’ has been proffered as a solution to the power imbalances associated with other rel…

  • Difficult Friendships and Ontological Insecurity

    Open Access•Carol Smart, Katherine Davies et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2012•Citada por: 28•Referências: 16

    In this paper we explore some of the negative aspects of friendship. In so doing we do not seek to join the debate about whether or not friendships are more or less important than other relationships but rather to explore precisely how significant friendships can be. Based on written accounts submitted to the British Mass Observation Project, we analyse how friendship, when it goes wrong, can challenge one's sense of self and even produce ontolog…

  • Situating Lesbian and Gay Cultures of Class Identification

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Cultural Sociology•2013•Citada por: 2•Referências: 28

    How significant are class identities to lesbians and gay men? In the 1990s some theorists implied that lesbian and gay identities were classless or post-class ones. This paper challenges this idea by considering personal narratives of class (dis-)identification that were generated via interviews with lesbians and gay men in the 1990s. The salience of class was explicitly and implicitly articulated in narratives of 'accepting', 'rejecting', 'ambig…

  • Scripting Civil Partnerships

    Open Access•B Heaphy, Anna Einarsdóttir•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2013•Citada por: 18•Referências: 29

    Couple studies generally focus on heterosexual relationships where partners are interviewed together or apart. This article discusses a study of same-sex couples' Civil Partnerships that interviewed partners together and apart. It considers the methodological and analytical challenges raised by our approach by discussing how the different interactional settings of the interviews shaped the stories that couples and partners told, the links between…

  • Reflexive convention

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 59

    Drawing on an analysis of qualitative interview data from a study of formalized same-sex relationships (civil partnerships) this paper examines the enduring significance of marriage and family as social institutions. In doing so, it intervenes in current debates in the sociology of family and personal life about how such institutions are undermined by reflexivity or bolstered by convention. Against the backdrop of dominating sociological frames f…

  • Troubling Traditional and Conventional Families? Formalised Same-Sex Couples and 'The Ordinary

    Open Access•B Heaphy•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2018•Citada por: 12•Referências: 27

    This article explores the value of the concept of 'the ordinary' in analysing formalised couple and family relationships. This is a concept that is coming to the fore in discussions of same-sex relationships. It is often associated with heterosexual tradition, convention, and normativity with respect to the social institutions of marriage and family and has also been defended as representing the everyday politics of contemporary post-traditional,…

  • Public sex, private intimacy and sexual exclusivity in men’s formalized same-sex relationships

    Open Access•B Heaphy, J Hodgson•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2021

    This article revisits the personal stories that younger male civil partners told about their sexual practices, in what most termed their ‘marriage’, to generate insights into the extent to which they succumbed to the dangers that critics of same-sex marriage foretold. It provides a baseline analysis against which the findings of future studies of both heterosexual and same-sex marriages and civil partnerships can be compared. The data we discuss …

  • An Intimate Revolution

    Open Access•Jaime García-Iglesias, Jaime Garcia Iglesias et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    This paper investigates the changes in digital practices of intimacy during the COVID-19 social distancing period in the UK, and whether these transformations have persisted in the ‘new normal’. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, collecting quantitative and qualitative data from 824 adults who used dating apps during the pandemic, and conducting 60 in-depth interviews. The study aimed to understand the digital intimate practices of hete…

  • Reinvigorating research on divorce

    B Heaphy, J Hodgson•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2023•Referências: 10

    There is a dearth of research on the dissolution of legally formalised same-sex relationships, which can be partly explained by same-sex marriage and civil partnership being relatively recent possibilities. However, it is also the case that divorce as a topic of research has been marginalised in the renewed interest in family and relationships that has focused on diverse intimacies, family forms, family practices, friendships and personal life. T…

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