“It's a real negotiation within yourself”: Women's stories of challenging heteronormativity within the habitus

Sinclair, Aimee

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2017.08.001

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“…As debates on choice feminism reflect, while we celebrate mothers' freedom to make choices, they are made in a framework that limits and exploits (Budgeon, 2015). Some feminists assert hegemonic ideologies cannot be challenged because they frame our realities (Budgeon, 2015); some contend society's treatment of motherhood as institution adversely affects women's sense of choice (Rich, 1979); others posit reflexivity enables probing, questioning, and challenging of such frameworks (Sinclair, 2017).…”

Section: Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Consequently, some feminists call for “a more nuanced approach” (Sinclair, 2017, p. 7) that considers mothers’ motivations and actions (Fonow & Cook, 1991) and identifies omissions about their lived experience, “looking at what is missing, what is passed over, and what is avoided” (Pillow & Mayo, 2012, p. 196). For example, De Marneffe (2019) suggests maternal desire is a powerful motivator for women, leading them to act in ways deemed oppressive, such as foregoing paid work to stay home with their children.…”

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Examining ideology and agency within intensive motherhood literature

Autret

Eeden‐Moorefield

Lee

et al. 2023

Feminism & Psychology

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In exploring why American mothers spend more time on care work compared to prior decades while increasingly engaging in paid work, Hays (1997) attributed women's actions to intensive motherhood (IM) ideology. Hays also asserted that women purposedly adhere to IM to resist an increasingly neoliberal market-based society by dedicating time and effort to nurturing children and family life. Here, we undertake a content analysis to take stock of IM literature's evolution in recent decades. Specifically, we examine scholars’ treatment of how women adhere to IM, and why and whether women do so in resistance to neoliberalism. We found that while scholars consistently cite and echo Hays (1997) on how women adhere to IM, most depart from Hays (1997) by positing women adhere to live up to an ideal of being a perfect mother due to the pervasive nature of IM. We also found many scholars focus on the possibility of resisting IM ideology itself rather than Hays’s (1997) perspective that women employ the ideology to resist neoliberalism. These findings raise questions about how women's agency manifests in the IM context, and concerns about embedded assumptions that limit our understanding of women's realities. Implications are discussed.

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Section: Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining ideology and agency within intensive motherhood literature

Autret

Eeden‐Moorefield

Lee

et al. 2023

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Ademais, Ferry (2014) apresenta porque as escolas passaram a incentivar práticas esportivas e porque os esportes são tão viáveis para as escolas numa visão de mercado, sob o argumento de que os esportes produzem formas de capital para as escolas devido aos vários significados associados a eles. Em complemento, temas sociais como corrupção e comportamento feminino são estudados por Vaidya (2019) e Sinclair (2017), respectivamente, mostrando o alcance das teorias de Bourdieu para os estudos de diversas áreas.…”

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Pierre Bourdieu em Marketing e Estudos de Consumo: Estado da arte e agenda de pesquisa

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Vieira

2020

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Diante da aplicabilidade dos conceitos de Pierre Bourdieu para a produção em Marketing e em estudos de consumo, bem como da escassez de estudos dessa natureza vistos ao longo dos últimos anos, este artigo apresenta um panorama dos estudos em Marketing e consumo que utilizam Bourdieu no período de 2008 a 2018, e com base nesses resultados desenvolve uma agenda de pesquisa na área. No levantamento realizado foram encontrados 46 artigos. Como principais resultados verifica-se que os estudos realizados se situam amplamente na área de consumo, possuem predominância de metodologias qualitativas, com entrevistas e observação como principais formas de coleta de dados, e análise interpretativa, hermenêutica e de discurso, como principais procedimentos de análise de dados, bem como destacam temas sociais e políticos nos contextos de Marketing e estudos de consumo. Diante dos resultados são feitas proposições de pesquisa, tanto aproveitando a consolidação dessas formas já realizadas, quanto apresentando o potencial que os conceitos de Bourdieu possuem para a pesquisa em Marketing e estudos de consumo.

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“…Here she evokes discourses of hetero-patriarchy, through which (hetero)sexuality is "systematically male dominated" (Jackson 1999: 163). A significant number of studies show how heteronormativity restrains women's agency in negotiating equal sexual outcomes (Sinclair 2017, Allen 2003, Burkett & Hamilton 2012, Chung 2005. This research comprehensively details the complex gendered discourses of sexual shame, safety, harm and pleasure that young women navigate within heterosexual relationships.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…This research comprehensively details the complex gendered discourses of sexual shame, safety, harm and pleasure that young women navigate within heterosexual relationships. Amidst this, young women are able to challenge these messages (Sinclair 2017), as Charlie demonstrates. She establishes a contrast by drawing on powerfully gendered sexuality discourses to construct both a certain femininity and compulsory heterosexuality, as well as women's capacity to resist.…”

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The Power of Pleasure: Contributions from Embodied Sociolinguistics

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<p>In this thesis I argue that foregrounding young women’s intersectional voices through an embodied sociolinguistic approach can afford a contribution to empowering sexual scripts. In doing so I demonstrate the political value in harnessing the linguistic negotiation of pleasure. To enact this goal, my research questions are: 1. How do women make sense of experiences of sexual pleasure in talk? 2. How do women construct their identities when talking about sexual pleasure? 3. How do women describe their bodies when recounting sexual pleasure? An embodied sociolinguistics offers insight into the discursive construction of sexual embodiment, and together with a critical feminist approach, centers the voices and experiences of women. Sexual experiential embodiment entails reflexively constructed understandings of sexual pleasure and desire through attention to discursive bodies, particularly for those that are historically misrepresented. The analysis makes use of conversations in intimate female friendships that serve as identity construction sites and reflect both agency and interdependent self-authorship. This data offers insights into the challenges of navigating various discourses in the pursuit of self-definition and is comprised of 6 hour-long conversations between 6 pairs of young female friends, as well as 4 hours of recorded focus group discussion. My findings demonstrate that ideologies of femininity play a large role in the initial construction of the intimate conversational site which creates space for dynamic negotiations of desire, subjectivity and the multifaceted nature of sexual experiences. The continuing interaction affords constructions of complex feminist identities within neoliberal constraints. I develop this into a critique of how uncritical discourses of sexual agency can transform sexual pleasure into a neoliberal project. Embodied sociolinguistics allows access into how sexual pleasure dynamically unfolds in the discursive formulation of the body. Ultimately this culminates into a mapping of historical pleasure landscapes that illustrate the significance of foregrounding language and conversation on sexual pleasure. Sociolinguistic investigations that seek to transform harmful hegemonic discourses are essential in the ongoing combat against entrenched rape culture. My study advocates for a culture that values discussion of female sexual pleasure. This focus is potentially more destabilizing and contestive than focusing on sexual violation because it directly challenges hetero-patriarchal culture’s hostility toward women’s agency. The framework employed in this thesis offers significant implications for the field of language, gender and sexuality, including the further advancement of the theory of embodied sociolinguistics and a methodology of intimate insider research. Employing intersectionality allows for the queering of normative sexual practices and disrupts normative gender discourses by centering agentive feminist voices. From a critical perspective, the research contributes to building a model of pleasure activism that prioritises joy. A body-focused linguistic approach demonstrates that true transformation of our sexuality culture must begin with destabilizing the neoliberal project and moving toward collective liberation. There is no inevitability to the sexual danger script when we channel the political power of pleasure. </p>

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“It's a real negotiation within yourself”: Women's stories of challenging heteronormativity within the habitus

Cited by 4 publications

References 45 publications

Examining ideology and agency within intensive motherhood literature

Examining ideology and agency within intensive motherhood literature

Pierre Bourdieu em Marketing e Estudos de Consumo: Estado da arte e agenda de pesquisa

The Power of Pleasure: Contributions from Embodied Sociolinguistics

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