2012
DOI: 10.1177/1363460712454076
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Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women’s negotiations of sexual consent

Abstract: Standard models of sexual consent in sexual violence prevention campaigns suppose that women, as free and autonomous agents, are in control of their sexuality and are able to 'just say no' to unwanted sex. In this article, we suggest that the 'just say no' approach to sexual consent is deeply problematic in light of the contradictory ways in which women's empowerment is assumed within postfeminist discourses whilst masking ongoing gender imbalances. In addition, we problematise neoliberalist notions of the inh… Show more

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“…Whilst they are neither new nor uncommon words, they have been extensively discussed as motifs of postfeminism (Gill, 2007;2008;Gill and Donaghue, 2013;Hamilton and Burkett, 2012;Banet-Weiser, 2015a. Breanne Fahs (2011, 276) writes: "Of all the dangerous patterns I have observed… the one that seems most problematic and troubling… is the cultural tendency to twist and corrupt empowerment discourses so they become clichéd, commodified, detrimental and ultimately disempowering".…”
Section: New Gen Fem and Postfeminismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Whilst they are neither new nor uncommon words, they have been extensively discussed as motifs of postfeminism (Gill, 2007;2008;Gill and Donaghue, 2013;Hamilton and Burkett, 2012;Banet-Weiser, 2015a. Breanne Fahs (2011, 276) writes: "Of all the dangerous patterns I have observed… the one that seems most problematic and troubling… is the cultural tendency to twist and corrupt empowerment discourses so they become clichéd, commodified, detrimental and ultimately disempowering".…”
Section: New Gen Fem and Postfeminismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Taking up the challenge to study postfeminism as a cultural object, the third aim of the article was to begin to outline what I saw as some of the key contours of this sensibility -a task to which many other scholars have contributed, before and since (e.g. Burkett and Hamilton, 2012;Dobson, 2015;Genz and Brabon, 2009;Gwynne and Muller, 2013;Tasker and Negra, 2007). 1 Some of these core features of postfeminism, discussed in many books and articles, include the emphasis upon individualism, choice and agency; the disappearance -or at least muting -of vocabularies for talking about both structural inequalities and cultural influence (Kelan, 2009); the 'deterritorialisation' of patriarchy and its 'reterritorialisation' (McRobbie, 2009) in women's bodies and the beauty industrial complex (Elias et al, 2017); the intensified surveillance of women (Winch, 2013); calls to work on, monitor and discipline the self (Ouellette, 2016); and the central significance of a 'makeover paradigm' (Heller, 2007;Weber, 2009) that extends beyond the surface of the body to an incitement to 'makeover' one's interior life, developing a new, 'upgraded' postfeminist subjectivity.…”
Section: Introduction: a Postfeminist Sensibility 10 Years Onmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…L'importance reconnue à ces processus de clariication semble conirmer l'hypothèse de Giddens (1991) selon laquelle l'identité postmoderne se construit à partir de choix conscients, un processus qu'il déinit comme le «projet rélexif du soi» (p.52-55). Les diférences entre les hommes et les femmes de même que les rapports de pouvoir qui peuvent intervenir dans ces relations sont peu mises en évidence dans les textes, alors qu'ils continuent à inluencer la dynamique relationnelle et l'agentivité féminine (Burkett et Hamilton, 2012). Les stratégies de négociation de la vie érotique ne sont pas discutées en détail, tout comme celles entourant le sexe sécuritaire qui se limitent à proposer surtout les composantes verbales liées à l'utilisation du condom, insistant sur l'airmation de soi, le registre des scénarios et des arguments possibles, et la gestion de l'échec de la négociation avec comme aboutissement préconisé, la rupture de la relation.…”
Section: Discussion Et Perspectives De Rechercheunclassified
“…En début de relation, l'égalité n'est pas encore atteinte pour la plupart des femmes (Burkett et Hamilton, 2012), où de nombreuses contraintes socio-culturelles semblent toujours bloquer la pleine atteinte de leur autonomie et de leur agentivité sexuelle, c'est-à-dire leur capacité à prendre en charge leur corps et sexualité (Lang, 2011). Même si ces femmes se disent fréquemment plus libres d'airmer leur autonomie que leur mère, elles restent néanmoins encore confrontées aux discours hétéronormatifs et aux diicultés à exprimer leur volonté dans le domaine sexuel face aux hommes, conirmant les résultats d'autres recherches (Allen 2003 ;Powell, 2008).…”
Section: Négociation Et Vie Sexuelleunclassified