Young Girls’ Embodied Experiences of Femininity and Social Class
Authors: Francombe-Webb, J. and Silk, M.
Journal: Sociology
Volume: 50
Issue: 4
Pages: 652-672
eISSN: 1469-8684
ISSN: 0038-0385
DOI: 10.1177/0038038514568233
Abstract:Based on research with middle-upper class 12–13-year-old school girls, we discuss how femininities were embodied and discursively reconstructed in class-based ways. The data suggests the girls understood class antagonisms within the boundaries of neoliberal discourses of responsibilization, self-discipline, self-worth, and ‘proper’ conduct and choices. With social class stripped of any structural or structuring properties, instead imparted to the fleshy sinews of the (excessive) body, the data reveals how social class was made visible and manifest in various mechanisms of, and meanings about, inclusion, exclusion, pathology and normalization. Thus, in explicating the ways in which the school girls embodied middle-upper class femininity (as the epitome of localized and everyday neoliberalism) we highlight how, in turn, ‘others’ (‘chavs’) were pathologized and deemed in need of regulation, management and governance.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22043/
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Young Girls' Embodied Experiences of Femininity and Social Class
Authors: Francombe-Webb, J. and Silk, M.
Journal: SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Volume: 50
Issue: 4
Pages: 652-672
eISSN: 1469-8684
ISSN: 0038-0385
DOI: 10.1177/0038038514568233
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22043/
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Young girls embodied experiences of femininity and social class
Authors: Francombe-Webb, J. and Silk, M.
Journal: Sociology
DOI: 10.1177/0038038514568233
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22043/
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Preferred by: Michael Silk
Young girls embodied experiences of femininity and social class
Authors: Francombe-Webb, J. and Silk, M.
Journal: Sociology
Volume: 50
Issue: 4
Pages: 652-672
ISSN: 1469-8684
Abstract:Based on research with middle-upper class 12-13 year old school girls, we discuss how femininities were embodied and discursively reconstructed in class-based ways. The data suggests the girls understood class antagonisms within the boundaries of neoliberal discourses of responsibilisation, self-discipline, self-worth, and ‘proper’ conduct and choices. With class stripped of any structural or structuring properties, instead imparted to the fleshy sinews of the (excessive) body, the data reveals how social class was made visible and manifest in various mechanisms of, and meanings about, inclusion, exclusion, pathology and ‘normalisation.’ Thus, in explicating the ways in which the school girls embodied middle-class femininity (as the epitome of localised and everyday neoliberalism) we highlight how, in turn, ‘others’ (‘chavs’) were pathologised and deemed in need of regulation, management and governance.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/22043/
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