Dr Matthew Waites
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Telephone +44 (0)141 330 4049
Email: Matthew.Waites@glasgow.ac.uk
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Research Interests
Research interests: gender and sexualities; youth and childhood; sociological, political and cultural theory; feminist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer theory; girl studies and boy studies; social movements; citizenship; human rights. My research is interdisciplinary, contributing to sociology, politics, law, socio-legal studies, history and cultural studies; my focus is on UK, international and global sexual politics, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer sexual politics, youth and childhood issues and debates over age of consent laws. I am now exploring debates over ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ in relation to human rights in global governmental organisations (the United Nations) and global civil society, as well as UK equality legislation creating a Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Publications
Books:
Waites, M. (2005) The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan)
Weeks, J., Holland, J. and Waites, M. (eds.)(2003) Sexualities and Society: A Reader (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2003)
Refereed Journal Articles:
The Fixity of Sexual Identities in the Public Sphere: Biomedical Knowledge, Liberalism and the Heterosexual/Homosexual Binary in Late Modernity, Sexualities, Vol.8, no.5, December 2005, pp.539-569.
Equality at Last? Homosexuality, Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent in the United Kingdom, Sociology, Vol.37, no.4, November 2003, pp.637-656.
Inventing a 'Lesbian Age of Consent'? The History of the Minimum Age for Sex between Women in the U.K., Social and Legal Studies, Vol. 11, no.3, September 2002, pp.323-342.
Regulation of Sexuality: Age of Consent, Section 28 and Sex Education, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol.54, no.3, July 2001, pp.495-508.
Homosexuality and the New Right: The Legacy of the 1980s for New Delineations of Homophobia, Sociological Research Online, Vol.5, no.1, May 2000, <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/>.
Other Journal Articles:
Adult Sexual Abuse of a Child?, New Law Journal, Vol.152, no.7047, September 13 2002, p.1342.
Lesbian and gay theory, sexuality and citizenship, review article, Contemporary Politics, Vol.2, no.3, Autumn 1996, pp.139-149.
Book Chapters:
Sexual Politics in G. Ritzer (2006) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.)(in press).
The Age of Consent and Sexual Consent in M. Cowling and P. Reynolds (eds.)(2004) Making Sense of Sexual Consent (Aldershot: Ashgate).
Introduction: Understanding Sexualities and Society (with J. Weeks and J. Holland), in J. Weeks, J.Holland and M.Waites (eds.)(2003) Sexualities and Society: A Reader (Cambridge: Polity Press).
The Age of Consent and Sexual Citizenship in the United Kingdom: a history, in J. Seymour and P. Bagguley (eds.)(1999) Relating Intimacies: Power and Resistance (London: Macmillan) – ‘Explorations in Sociology’, B.S.A. conference volumes.
Sexual Citizens: legislating the age of consent in Britain, in T. Carver and V. Mottier (eds.)(1998) Politics of Sexuality: Identity, Gender, Citizenship (London: Routledge).
Research Grants
Research Project: 'The Regulation of Sexuality: Autonomy, Protection and Consent', October 2001-August 2002. Research Grant £24,597 - South Bank University Research Development Fund (refereed). Analysing debates over the regulation of young people’s sexual behaviour during the Home Office review of Sex Offences.
Supervisory Interests
I have co-supervised one PhD to viva and re-submission, and am interested to supervise students in any of the areas indicated above, particularly UK and international LGBTQ sexual politics.