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Coming to terms with sexualization
Not since the feminist pornography debates of the 1980s has there been such an outburst of discussion, research and publications about sexualized images of women and girls. The debate is now carried out by governments and other social actors, but to hail current attacks on sexualization as a belated...
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| author | Linda Duits Liesbet van Zoonen |
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| description | Not since the feminist pornography debates of the 1980s has there been such an outburst of discussion, research and publications about sexualized images of women and girls. The debate is now carried out by governments and other social actors, but to hail current attacks on sexualization as a belated victory for feminism is naive and problematic, as discussed in this article. We contend that current sexualization policies involve academic analyses and political solutions which are cast in the discourse of liberal feminism and neoliberalism. Inevitable in the current work on sexualization is an identity of girls and young women as ‘victims’ in need of protection. Research among Dutch girls is utilized to refute that construction, emphasizing tactics of resistance, negotiation and accommodation which they have developed. Current sexualization concerns are ahistorical in their oblivion to similar sexualization panics in previous decades and to the years of feminist cultural analysis and critique in this arena |
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| spelling | rr-article-94726432011-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming to terms with sexualization Linda Duits (7188281) Liesbet van Zoonen (7188077) Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Ethnography Feminist agenda Girls Media Music videos Neoliberalism Sexualization Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Not since the feminist pornography debates of the 1980s has there been such an outburst of discussion, research and publications about sexualized images of women and girls. The debate is now carried out by governments and other social actors, but to hail current attacks on sexualization as a belated victory for feminism is naive and problematic, as discussed in this article. We contend that current sexualization policies involve academic analyses and political solutions which are cast in the discourse of liberal feminism and neoliberalism. Inevitable in the current work on sexualization is an identity of girls and young women as ‘victims’ in need of protection. Research among Dutch girls is utilized to refute that construction, emphasizing tactics of resistance, negotiation and accommodation which they have developed. Current sexualization concerns are ahistorical in their oblivion to similar sexualization panics in previous decades and to the years of feminist cultural analysis and critique in this arena 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/13277 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Coming_to_terms_with_sexualization/9472643 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Ethnography Feminist agenda Girls Media Music videos Neoliberalism Sexualization Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Linda Duits Liesbet van Zoonen Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title | Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title_full | Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title_fullStr | Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title_short | Coming to terms with sexualization |
| title_sort | coming to terms with sexualization |
| topic | Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Ethnography Feminist agenda Girls Media Music videos Neoliberalism Sexualization Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/13277 |