Navigation of Feminist and Submissive Identity by Women in the BDSM Community: A Structured Literature Review

Meeker, Carolyn; McGill, Craig M.; Rocco, Tonette S.

doi:10.1007/s12119-019-09681-9

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“…In a review of the literature, Meeker et al. (2019) suggest agency, power, and consent as important feminist constructs to navigating these identities. Many BDSM practitioners observe new people, particularly young submissive women, being viewed as naïve or needing to be protected and may be exploited, often by male dominants (Meeker et al., 2019).…”

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“…But for some women, BDSM is a vehicle for authentic expression and emotional and sexual fulfillment (Prior, 2013). How women experience these stigmatized identities in tandem and learned to navigate them has not yet received much scholarly attention (Meeker et al., 2019).…”

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“…For instance, examining heterosexism can help society learn how to create equitable systems and structures (Rocco & Gallagher, 2006; Rocco & West, 1998). Yet, scant research has explored the lived experiences and identity navigation of women who identify as both feminist and submissive (Dymock, 2012; Meeker et al., 2019). As sexual minorities, people who identify under the BDSM umbrella have been largely ignored by the field of adult education.…”

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“…As sexual minorities, people who identify under the BDSM umbrella have been largely ignored by the field of adult education. As part of a structured literature review covering multiple disciplines (Meeker et al., 2019), a keyword search for BDSM‐related terms (e.g., BDSM, sadomasochism, sadomasochistic, dominance and submission, power exchange, fetish, kink, kinky, Leather) was conducted within five adult education journals ( Adult Education Quarterly , Adult Learning , AERA Open , Emerging Adulthood , and the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education ). The search was conducted in Spring 2017 with no parameters set on date of publication.…”

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Exploring the ways women navigate feminist and submissive identities: A phenomenography

Meeker

McGill

2021

New Dir Child Adolesc Dev

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Identity shapes how people make sense of the world and their experiences, including their interactions with other people. Although bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism (BDSM) have been examined through a range of lenses, little research has explored the lived experiences and identity navigation of women who are both feminist and submissive. As women in this community navigate the intersecting meanings of feminism and submission, they might have trouble reconciling their politics and Dominance and submission (D/s) practice. When a person's identity characteristics intersect, there can be inner tension, whereby an individual might view herself as “wrong, other” or be viewed as “wrong, other” by society. Women who identify as both feminist and submissive may experience the phenomenon in qualitatively different ways, depending on life histories, level of identity resonance, and a variety of other issues impacting their lives. In this paper, we use phenomenography to investigate the differing ways in which 23 women in the BDSM community who identify as feminist and submissive navigate the conflicting identity standards of their feminist and submissive identities. Women in BDSM who identify as feminist and submissive navigate the identity standards in three ways: (1) having never experienced internal conflict between the identities (n = 9), (2) having experienced internal conflict between the identities in the past but no longer (n = 9), and (3) coping with current unreconciled internal tension between the identities (n = 5). These findings contribute to discourse on identity development, healthy relationships, and adult education by identifying challenges that women experience in accepting, reconciling, and navigating their identities.

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2021

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“…In HRD, Rocco and colleagues (2003) were first to use the SLR as a method. Their method description has been used as a model and advanced by Rocco through mentoring of emerging scholars, which resulted in several scholarly publications, such as McGill (2019), Meeker et al (2020), Plakhotnik and Rocco (2011), and Wollard and Shuck (2011). These and other scholars used an SLR to examine a phenomenon over time (Collins, 2015; McGill, 2019; Plakhotnik & Rocco, 2011), establish a baseline for future research (Procknow & Rocco, 2016), compare a concept across fields (McGill, 2017), search for trends and issues (Rocco et al, 2003), and determine who is interested in the phenomenon (Collins, 2015).…”

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Conducting and Writing a Structured Literature Review in Human Resource Development

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Human Resource Development Review

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This article describes how to develop, conduct, and write a structured literature review (SLR) and cites examples of published SLR to illustrate different perspectives on the process and contributions to the literature. We first discuss how the SLR differs from other types of reviews (i.e., integrative literature review, meta-analysis, and scoping review). Second, the process of writing an SLR is discussed across common manuscript components: (1) the research problem, (2) conceptual or theoretical framework, (3) method, (4) findings and discussion, and (5) implications. Finally, we offer implications for how the SLR can be effectively leveraged in human resource development.

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Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture

Turley

2022

Sexualities

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Despite increased media exposure, bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism (BDSM) is a stigmatised subculture and this stigmatisation can have serious social and legal implications for practitioners even when the participation is consensual. Psycho-medical narratives have constructed practitioners of BDSM as perverse and pathological, and in opposition to heteronormative sexual expression. To reduce stigma, it appears that a process of normalisation is occurring with the aim of increasing broader acceptance and therefore reducing the transgressive nature of BDSM. This, however, is not unproblematic and may privilege certain types of BDSM while further marginalising others. Nine practitioners of consensual BDSM participated in in-depth, face to face interviews in the UK. Interviews were conducted within an interpretive phenomenological framework that focused on the lived experience of participating in consensual BDSM. The findings presented in this article relate specifically to lived experiences of transgression as a key element of BDSM and will be discussed with reference to the ways transgression can challenge narratives of acceptance via normalisation.

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Navigation of Feminist and Submissive Identity by Women in the BDSM Community: A Structured Literature Review

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring the ways women navigate feminist and submissive identities: A phenomenography

Exploring the ways women navigate feminist and submissive identities: A phenomenography

Conducting and Writing a Structured Literature Review in Human Resource Development

Unperverting the perverse: Sacrificing transgression for normalised acceptance in the BDSM subculture

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