The Age of Consent and Sexual Citizenship in the United Kingdom: a History

Waites, Matthew

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“…Among other aspects, the study examined age of consent laws. "Age of consent" as used in this article is not a legal term but a convenient expression for describing the minimum age below which certain sexual acts are prohibited, usually by criminal law (Waites, 1999).…”

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(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex: A Rights-Based Assessment of Age of Consent Laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

Kangaude

Skelton

2018

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Age of consent criminal laws imposed on African states during colonialism were inherently patriarchal and gender-stereotypic, and continue to influence country approaches toward adolescent consensual sexual conduct. There are two major policy positions: a punitive and a nonpunitive approach. Most countries adopt the punitive approach. Mostly, legislation does not explicitly criminalize consensual sexual conduct between adolescents, and this leaves a gray area to be filled in by social and cultural norms that perceive adolescent sexual conduct negatively. Punitive approaches have been justified as necessary to curb harms to adolescents resulting from sexual conduct, including teenage pregnancies and sexual abuse. Age of consent laws, especially in their original colonial formulation deny adolescents, especially girls, sexual autonomy and agency. States focus more on punishment than on taking measures to address the structural antecedents of harms associated with sexual intercourse. States should reform age of consent laws to decriminalize consensual sex between adolescents in accordance with recognized rights of the child.

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(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex: A Rights-Based Assessment of Age of Consent Laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

Kangaude

Skelton

2018

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“…It is significant that while these theorists appear to have limited interest in the importance of advancing social perspectives on sexual identity for interventions in mainstream politics, commentators drawing upon empirically detailed research on contemporary political debates have continued to express a sense of urgency about the need for this. Vigilant observers in the UK have continued to demonstrate lesbian and gay campaigners' reliance upon reductive and homogenizing biomedical understandings of homosexuality in debates over Section 28 in the late 1980s (Evans, 1993: 142-6;Evans, 1995), over human rights in the early 1990s (Jackson, 1998;Rahman, 1998), and in debates over equalization of the age of consent throughout the 1990s (Waites, 1995(Waites, , 1999a(Waites, , 1999b(Waites, , 2003; for recent discussion see Rahman, 2000;Evans, 2001). Relatedly, some of these theorists have also called greater attention to the need to utilize political theory to analyse how knowledge-claims circulate specifically in mainstream politics (Waites, 1995;Rahman, 2000: 3-4).…”

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“…My research over the past decade suggests that the specific character of official political discourse has been important in structuring political debates over the age of consent and Section 28 (Waites, 1995(Waites, , 1999a(Waites, , 1999b(Waites, , 2000(Waites, , 2001(Waites, , 2003. While diverse forms of knowledge-claim concerning sexual identity circulate in all areas of social life, scientific and professional narratives have particular resonance and carry particular authority in the public sphere.…”

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The Fixity of Sexual Identities in the Public Sphere: Biomedical Knowledge, Liberalism and the Heterosexual/Homosexual Binary in Late Modernity

Waites

2005

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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 debates over repeal of Section 28 and legalization of adoption by same-sex couples. The analysis integrates social constructionist and queer perspectives on sexual identities from sociological and cultural theory, perspectives from political theory on contemporary liberalism, and an analysis of biomedical knowledge in late modernity. It is argued that the increasing assertion of claims for equality, citizenship and recognition of cultural diversity in mainstream politics is occurring largely within a persistent ‘rationale of containment’ which seeks to minimize the prevalence of homosexuality. This draws attention to particular tensions and dynamics operating in the lives of bisexuals and queers, and especially in the lives of young people.

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“…Subsequent work on citizenship has sought to extend Marshall's initial formulation in relation to various dimensions of inequality, such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability (Bulmer and Rees, 1996;Held, 1989;Hussain and Bagguley, 2005;Isin and Wood, 1999;Kymlicka, 1995;Lister, 1997;Nash, 2000;Sypnowich, 2000;Stevenson, 2001;Turner, 1986;Waite, 1999;Yuval-Davis, 1997), or in relation to globalisation and the restructuring of welfare provision (Delanty, 2000;Glenn, 2000;Roche, 1992;Roche and Van Berkel, 1997;Turner, 1993;Urry, 2000, pp. 161-187), but have tended to neglect industrial citizenship.…”

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Industrial citizenship: a re‐conceptualisation and case study of the UK

Bagguley

2013

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:368933 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to critically examine and reformulate T.H. Marshall's concept of industrial citizenship, and apply the reformulated model to a case study of the UK. Design/methodology/approach -Marshall's conceptualisation of industrial citizenship is criticised for neglecting the rights of unions as collective rights and for treating industrial citizenship as an aggregation of individual rights. Subsequent attempts to use the idea of industrial citizenship are similarly flawed. A case study of changes to industrial citizenship in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s is used to develop the new model and provide evidence in support of it. Findings -An alternative conceptualisation of industrial citizenship is presented that outlines collective and individual powers, obligations, liberties, constraints, immunities and liabilities. This model is illustrated using examples from the Conservative governments' industrial relations legislation of the 1980s and 1990s. Originality/value -Discussions and applications of T.H. Marshall's concept of industrial citizenship are few and far between. The paper proposes an original re-conceptualisation specifying the collective rights of unions in the British regime of industrial citizenship. This new concept of industrial citizenship is then applied to the radical changes in industrial relations legislation in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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The Age of Consent and Sexual Citizenship in the United Kingdom: a History

Cited by 10 publications

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(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex: A Rights-Based Assessment of Age of Consent Laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex: A Rights-Based Assessment of Age of Consent Laws in Eastern and Southern Africa

The Fixity of Sexual Identities in the Public Sphere: Biomedical Knowledge, Liberalism and the Heterosexual/Homosexual Binary in Late Modernity

Industrial citizenship: a re‐conceptualisation and case study of the UK

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