Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest: Sexual agency and subjectivity in classroom conversation

King, Brian W.

doi:10.1177/1363460713516337

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“…Her study suggests that the justifications with pronominal forms as positioning devices contribute to constructing agency and social relations with each another. King (2014) explores the development of teenagers' sense of sexual agency through classroom conversations. The researcher audio-records and analyzes the interactions between the participants (students in a secondary school in New Zealand) when they are given a scenario for discussion during a sexuality lesson.…”

Section: Agency In Conversationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Qi¹

2019

IJL

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This paper is aimed to provide a review about the studies on how people practice their agency in various types of discourse and to suggest the possible directions for future research. The paper begins with the introduction to different conceptualizations of human agency in philosophy and sociology. Next, it reviews how human agency has been explored in written discourses like textbooks, news stories and novels, as well as in spoken discourses including conversations and oral narratives. Then, it highlights the relationship between agency and systemic functional linguistics, as the latter has been effectively applied to analyzing human agency in discourse. The review shows that studies on discursive practice of agency have demonstrated the following features. First, human agency has been studied in various types of discourse with methodological biases. Second, the majority of the studies take a relatively static view towards agency within a particular discourse. Third, most of the studies are qualitative analysis to selected individual sentences or utterances. At the end of the paper, suggestions are given for further research based on the research gaps identified.

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Section: Agency In Conversationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Qi¹

2019

IJL

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“…Adolescents' understanding of sexuality is subject to the current discourses and concomitant power (Allen, 2007b). The view that a girl possesses the ability to choose whether to maintain or lose her virginity entails that humhandara becomes an affirmation of female power and agency, but contradictorily this agency is located in the very discourses which regulate female sexuality (King, 2014). It is apparent that there exists a stringent moral code on the subject of female sexuality in the community communicated through the virginity discourse.…”

Section: Virginity and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

Humhandara and hujaya: Virginity, Culture, and Gender Inequalities Among Adolescents in Zimbabwe

Matswetu

Bhana

2018

Sage Open

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Given the significance of gender and cultural norms in producing meanings about sexuality, we address the ways in which rural adolescents in Zimbabwe, aged between 16 and 19 years old, give meaning to virginity and the social processes through which it is produced. We are interested in the ways in which cultural norms are produced and ways in which sexual double standards operate in producing sexuality and girls' subordination. We argue that while adolescents are not simply dupes of cultural norms, they actively invest in and use virginity as a marker of status. Integral to adolescent experience of and ideals around virginity, there is a significant ambivalence where girls' virginity is expected, whereas the same is unexpected for young adolescent men. We show that conformity with, rather than resistance to, cultural norms may contradictorily and simultaneously subordinate and empower young women. Choosing to maintain virginity can be seen as an autonomous decision especially when girls position educational aspirations as key to virginity status in order to gain some control over their lives. However, this choice might not simply be about autonomy but occurs in a cultural context where patriarchal values had already made it an obligation. Dominant discourses around virginity and cultural norms stand in direct contradiction to adolescent sexual well-being, albeit with contradictions. Attention to cultural processes through which relations of power are manifest is important in safeguarding young people's sexual health especially in the context of HIV.

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“…These sexually agentive subject positions are ascribed, resisted, aligned to, and performed depending on the positioning of subjects in interaction (Thompson 2011; B. King 2014a,b). It is important not to dichotomize structure and agency (Eckert 2012; Bell 2016); rather the focus should be on how participants ‘use cultural and linguistic resources both flexibly and fixedly’ (Harissi et al 2012:540) as they contend with powerful ideologies about gender and sexuality that form part of the broader sociocultural context of interaction.…”

Section: Performativity Gender and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Hip Hop headz in sex ed: Gender, agency, and styling in New Zealand

King

2018

Lang. Soc.

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This study examines Hip Hop styling, gender, and sexual agency in a sex education class. The focus is on the indirect indexing of gender by a female-bodied student through the Hip Hop cultural personas of braggadocio and swagger, providing a rare look at ‘mundane’ performances of Hip Hop and its relationship to gender. Discourse analysis demonstrates that she used Hip Hop styling to manage ascriptions of sexual agency during a discussion task as she repeatedly recontextualized the telling of a classroom incident. Her language use afforded the trying out of identity meanings and required complex discursive work in relation to constructs such as masculinity, femininity, straight, and lesbian. These processes assisted her to negotiate how sexual agency might fit with her various identifications and identities. Therefore the potential for Hip Hop styling to connect identities with language has implications for both sexuality education and the study of sociolinguistics. (Agency, gender, Hip Hop, performativity, sexuality, social identities, styling)*

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Inverting virginity, abstinence, and conquest: Sexual agency and subjectivity in classroom conversation

Cited by 29 publications

References 38 publications

Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Human Agency and Its Discursive Practices

Humhandara and hujaya: Virginity, Culture, and Gender Inequalities Among Adolescents in Zimbabwe

Hip Hop headz in sex ed: Gender, agency, and styling in New Zealand

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