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To cite this article: Chris Haywood (1996) 'Out of the Curriculum': sex talking, talking sex, Curriculum Studies, 4:2, 229-249To link to this article: http://dx.ABSTRACT This study draws on ethnographic research conducted over a period of 2 months at aco-education sixth form. By considering gender identities as performative, ethnographic material is used to illustrate how male students use talk to fashion heterosexual masculinities. It is argued that the relationship between male students and the formal curriculum is crucial to the styles of sex talk spoken out of the formal curriculum. A focus on sexual stories, public talk and private talk explores how in different contexts heterosexual masculinities police and regulate specific versions of gendered sexualities. By drawing attention to different styles of talk of various masculine heterosexualities, there are implications for the ways in which reconstructed curricula are strategic in producing reconstructed gendered identities.

Much recent academic work on making sense of the changing public profile of the Muslim community in Britain operates within an explanatory framework that assumes a shift from ethnicity to religion and an accompanying shift from racialization to Islamophobia. A key limitation of this work, often grounded in media representations, is that it tends to be disconnected from contemporary lived social relations. In response, this paper critically engages with these debates, drawing upon qualitative research that explores a changing cultural condition that is inhabited by British born, working-class Pakistani and Bangladeshi young men. It is argued that this emergent cultural condition cannot conceptually be contained within a singular category of religion as the contours of the young men's cultural condition are embedded within a range of intensified and ambivalent rapidly shifting local, national and international geo-political processes. Therefore in contrast to recent theorizing and research on Muslim communities and identities, the young men in this study critically engage with the contextually-based local meanings of Muslim, Islamophobia and racialization to secure complex masculine subjectivities. Alongside this, the article highlights that young men recognize that Islamophobia, displacing a notion of racialization, is a danger for their community because of the attendant invisibility of the current impact of social class within conditions of socio-economic austerity, which for them is a central element of their social and cultural exclusions.

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