Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault

Deveaux, Monique

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“…Gender perspectives provide a sense of 'empowerment' (Moser, 1993;Devaux, 1994). They can help us understand and improve women's abilities to tackle risky situations in a context of identity changes alongside the search for pleasure.…”

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Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Romo

Marcos-Marcos

Rodríguez³

et al. 2009

Sexualities

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Against a background of significant social change experienced by Spanish women from the 1960s onwards, new gender identities and conflicts have emerged. These factors have barely been taken into account in the research work done in Spain. This article looks into the conversations of young people concerning their relationship with risky sexual behaviour, recreational drug use and sexual identity. Drawing from a qualitative study of discussion groups and semi-structured interviews with young recreational drug users, the article suggests that there are at least two models of femininity among the recreational drug consumers that have taken part in this study. First there is a traditional romantic model whereby young women associated risky sexual behaviour with being in love or trusting in the partner. Here the young woman does not link her sexual behaviour to the effects of using recreational drugs but, rather, to the characteristics of her emotional relationship. Second, there is a model of new values and gender roles that are closer to those traditionally associated to males, where the young women use recreational drugs as a form of empowerment to take on new situations concerning their sexuality. The article analyses the perceptions of risk among the different identity groups, along with the negotiations to begin sexual relations and the use of the condom in these groups of recreational drug users. Issues for policy and practice are also briefly considered.

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Section: Sexualities 12(3)mentioning

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Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Romo

Marcos-Marcos

Rodríguez³

et al. 2009

Sexualities

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“…Lorde (1984) long ago discussed how erotic knowledge 'is a source of power and information' (p. 53). This 'internal empowerment' (Deveaux 1994) is both psychological and physical, the result of which is an embodied sexuality. Where queer bodies are routinely on the margins, here one's perspectival orientation is made center.…”

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Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: looking to two lesbian/queer bathhouses for a third way

Hammers

2008

Journal of Gender Studies

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In utilizing my ethnographic research on two Canadian lesbian/queer bathhouses, Pussy Palace in Toronto and SheDogs in Halifax, I seek to show the centrality of queer and the concomitant promises of a queer project when it comes to bodily speech and sexual articulation. While many feminists have criticized queer as being regressive and ineffective, I explicate the ways in which the queering of space employed by the organizers of Pussy Palace and SheDogs enables the discursive and physical conditions for intelligibility among bathhouse patrons. The result is a body that speaks, a body that through its very specificity is recognized and affirmed.

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“…in Deveaux, 1994). From this optic, a crucial aspect of academic disciplinary policing and educational rationale is how the institutional sanctioning of new intellectual formations presupposes both a (belated) recognition of inter-disciplinarity as one of the fundamental practices of Cultural Studies and simultaneously the endorsement of a 'déformation professionelle' vis-à-vis Cultural Studies.…”

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‘A Room of One's Own’?

D’Arcy¹

2009

Cultural Studies

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Feminism and Empowerment: A Critical Reading of Foucault

Cited by 157 publications

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Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Girl Power: Risky Sexual Behaviour and Gender Identity amongst Young Spanish Recreational Drug Users

Bodies that speak and the promises of queer: looking to two lesbian/queer bathhouses for a third way

‘A Room of One's Own’?

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