Thinking outside specious boxes: constructionist and post-structuralist readings of ‘child sexual abuse’

Grondin, Anne-Marie

doi:10.1080/14681811.2011.590065

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“…9 For examples of such perspectives, see Smith’s (2007) study of the pleasures of reading women’s porn, Holland and Attwood’s (2009) discussion of the mainstreaming of pole dancing, and Thompson’s (2010) and Grondin’s (2011) analyses of contemporary ‘moral panics’ around child sexual abuse.…”

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‘Lad culture’ in higher education: Agency in the sexualization debates

Phipps

Young

2015

Sexualities

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This article reports on research funded by the National Union of Students, which explored women students’ experiences of ‘lad culture’ through focus groups and interviews. We found that although laddism is only one of various potential masculinities, for our participants it dominated the social and sexual spheres of university life in problematic ways. However, their objections to laddish behaviours did not support contemporary models of ‘sexual panic’, even while oppugning the more simplistic celebrations of young women’s empowerment which have been observed in debates about sexualization. We argue that in their ability to reject ‘lad culture’, our respondents expressed a form of agency which is often invisibilized in sexualization discussions and which could be harnessed to tackle some of the issues we uncovered.

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‘Lad culture’ in higher education: Agency in the sexualization debates

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2015

Sexualities

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“…These discourses provide necessary frameworks for them to construct and to make sense of their experience in and through their storytelling. Grondin (2011) explains the traits of the post-structuralist narrative in this way:…”

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The Confucian Educational Philosophy and Experienced Teachers’ Resistance: A Narrative Study in Macau

Hua

Vong²

2016

Front Educ China

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This study investigates experienced teachers' resistance in an era of neoliberalism in Macau. The narratives of three experienced teachers are examined under a post-structuralist framework. The findings indicate that the traditional Chinese Confucian ideology of education guides the experienced teachers' professional practice and offers them an alternative subject position to inhabit that makes it possible for them to establish a critical distance from the prevailing norms imposed by the hegemony of neoliberalism. Such a distance allows the experienced teachers to observe, to think otherwise and consequently to live out a different teaching life and to reassemble their identity around an empowered notion of self. The study concludes that the Confucian ideology of education has contributed to the transformation of the contemporary discursive context of Macau by promising a future for education, a future with a revisioned future rather than a neoliberal incorporation of the past.

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“…Employing these Foucauldian thoughts, poststructuralist scholars have identified a problematic discursive construction underpinning CSA, namely, the binary positioning of adults as powerful and sexually exploitative, and children as sexually innocent and powerless (Angelides 2004;Burman 2003;Clark 2014;Egan and Hawkes 2009;Grondin 2011;Lamb and Plocha 2014). As Angelides (2004) has noted, this discursive positioning has expanded since the 1980s, when feminists fought to overturn the tendency to blame victims of CSA.…”

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Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

Mulya

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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Responding to previous scholars' call to explore the complexities of child sexual abuse (CSA), this article presents narratives of CSA and scrutinizes a binary construction underpinning this discourse of CSA, namely, the positioning of children as powerless and adults as powerful. The narratives belong to three Indonesian young people who have had sexual interactions with adults when they were children. The findings demonstrate how this binary positioning has been both drawn upon and resisted in the ways participants understand their sexual experiences. This article contributes to the existing literature by providing analyses of some vignettes of everyday experiences of how children might be constituted as sexual subjects, including their capability to exercise agency, perform resistance, and negotiate ethics. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to how the recognition of children as sexual subjects and their sexual agency might be beneficial for parents, educators, and counselors.

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Thinking outside specious boxes: constructionist and post-structuralist readings of ‘child sexual abuse’

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

‘Lad culture’ in higher education: Agency in the sexualization debates

‘Lad culture’ in higher education: Agency in the sexualization debates

The Confucian Educational Philosophy and Experienced Teachers’ Resistance: A Narrative Study in Macau

Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics

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