@article{ref1,
title="Consuming Chavs: The Ambiguous Politics of Gay Chavinism",
journal="Sociology",
year="2010",
author="Jack, Gavin and Brewis, Joanna",
volume="44",
number="2",
pages="251-268",
abstract="Paul Johnson’s (2008) article ‘Rude Boys’, published in an earlier issue of Sociology , scrutinizes critically the commodification of the male chav for consumption by middle-class homosexual men. This phenomenon, which Andrew Fraser (2005) calls ‘chavinism’, takes a number of different forms: pornography, sex lines, club nights etc. In part as a response to Johnson’s arguments concerning the ways in which chavinism ‘further devalue[s] the individuals and groups’ it depicts, creating a form of ‘symbolic violence’ (2008: 67), our article speculates further on the ambiguous implications of this minority consumer culture. To do this, we develop Connell’s (1992, 2002; Connell and Messerschmidt, 2005) concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ to discuss what gay chavinism might mean for ‘hegemonic homosexuality’.<p />",
language="",
issn="0038-0385",
doi="10.1177/0038038509357201",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038509357201"
}