Claire Meehan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 915153 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Claire Meehan |
| NOMBRES | Claire |
| APELLIDO | Meehan |
| FIRMA | MEEHAN C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8795-0102 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
‘The girl was so ashamed she didn’t come back to school for the rest of term’
Women and gender diverse people are more likely than men to experience sexual violence, including image-based sexual abuse. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and workshops with young people aged 12–16 and 16–18 and adults with a vested interest in young people’s digital sexual cultures, I sought to explore attitudes towards image-based sexual abuse and perceptions of young people’s right to sexual knowledge. I found that young women’s bodies, s…
‘We Teach Kids About It So They Don't Get Addicted’
This research sought to explore young people's and teachers' understandings of porn. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of small focus group interview data with 106 young people aged 12–16 years old and semi‐structured interviews with six teachers in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I examine their perceptions of porn and the place of porn in sex education. All of the young people were aware of porn and the majority viewed it through a gendered lens…
Do feminists send nudes? How young women navigate sexting and feminism
To gain insights into how young women negotiate the gendered context in which they live their digital sexual lives, the research reported here sought to explore young people’s understandings of feminism with regards to sexting. Drawing on small friendship group interviews with young people in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I reflect on 12–16 year old young people’s negotiation of sexting and subjectivity in a post-feminist landscape. The young women in t…
Dirty work, emotion work and safety work. Experiencing rape threats as a feminist researcher
Violence against women is a pervasive and enduring problem that has been amplified through digital communication technologies. Throughout this reflexive article I analyze the impact of receiving violent rape threats as a feminist academic. I discuss the invisible emotional labour and safety work women scholars undertake to minimize risk, and how this is amplified when our work is considered ‘dirty’. In drawing on my lived experience, I hope to ch…
Watching Porn, (Un)Doing Gender? Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Online Porn
The social construction of gender and pleasure is a dominant discourse that is historically entrenched within New Zealand society. Like elsewhere, New Zealanders have seen an exponential rise in the availability and accessibility of online porn in the past few decades, yet a gap in the literature remains around how young people perform gender while engaging with porn. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interviews with 106 cis gender yo…
“I wouldn’t want you talking to my kids!”
Much research has been conducted on young people as a population rather than with them. Traditionally, porn research has focused on effects – on the assumption that people, especially young people, are impacted by the sexual media they consume, which leads to negative outcomes such as violence and addiction. In this sense, porn is framed as risky and children and young people become especially ‘at risk’. Sex, sexuality and sexual media are then p…
They’re Much Too young
Most debates around the place of porn in the classroom focus on abstaining from porn through sex education. Any inclusion of pleasure often entails lengthy consideration of discourses of pornification and sexualization more broadly. In this study, I aimed to elicit young people's and teachers' views, concerns and suggestions about the place of porn, and pleasure more broadly, in sex education. I present a thematic content analysis of small friend…
When you become addicted to it you start having these unrealistic expectations’
There is ongoing academic and clinical debate over whether someone can be addicted to porn. To gain insights into the role of porn in young people's lives, this research sought to explore young people's understandings of porn as a normal part of their lives, or by contrast, as addictive. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interview data from 106 school-aged young people in New Zealand, I reflect on young people's views on porn addictio…
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’
Often focusing on permission to act or not to act, debates about sexual consent are multifaceted and enduring. The pervasive presence of digital technology in young people’s lives has added new complexities to ‘sextual’ consent. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interview data with school-aged young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article provides insights into their understandings of consent surrounding the creation and sharing …
You don’t hear about girls sending unwanted photos, there must be a willy waiver!’ Young women’s use of humour as safety work when receiving unsolicited dick pics
The internet has facilitated and exacerbated men’s intrusions through the ability to send unsolicited ‘dick pics’ (DPs) to women. To understand how young women negotiate the gendered context in which they live their digital sexual lives, the research reported here sought to explore how school-aged young women in Aotearoa New Zealand made sense of unsolicited DPs. Unsolicited DPs were strongly differentiated from wanted images, in terms of consent…
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting
Young women are increasingly engaging with digital sexual media, yet discussion of female desire remains absent or is vilified. This paper examines young women's online sexual expression, as seen through the eyes of both young men and young women. Based on small friendship group interviews conducted with 106 12-16-year-old young women and men in Aotearoa New Zealand, I analysed perceptions of young women's sexual expression. Framed through patria…
If someone’s freaky, everyone loves it. It’s all about the drama’
The social construction of gender and sexuality is compounded by neoliberalist, individualistic and competitive notions of choice and empowerment. This study draws on small friendship group interviews with 106 self-selecting young people, aged 12–16, in three schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Young women live their digital sexual lives in a context characterized by feelings of powerlessness. This sense of powerlessness was somewhat reduced through…
Lesbian porn. Anything girl on girl’
Literature on women’s engagement and experiences as consumers of porn shows an increasing recognition that women are aroused by porn. The research reported here observed and analyzed young women’s discussions around online porn on three English-language internet forums. By drawing on qualitative methodology, the understandings of young women on their experiences with lesbian porn are reported. In their discussions about lesbian porn, hetero-ident…
Lesbian porn. Anything girl on girl’
Literature on women’s engagement and experiences as consumers of porn shows an increasing recognition that women are aroused by porn. The research reported here observed and analyzed young women’s discussions around online porn on three English-language internet forums. By drawing on qualitative methodology, the understandings of young women on their experiences with lesbian porn are reported. In their discussions about lesbian porn, hetero-ident…
If someone’s freaky, everyone loves it. It’s all about the drama’
The social construction of gender and sexuality is compounded by neoliberalist, individualistic and competitive notions of choice and empowerment. This study draws on small friendship group interviews with 106 self-selecting young people, aged 12–16, in three schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Young women live their digital sexual lives in a context characterized by feelings of powerlessness. This sense of powerlessness was somewhat reduced through…
They’re Much Too young
Most debates around the place of porn in the classroom focus on abstaining from porn through sex education. Any inclusion of pleasure often entails lengthy consideration of discourses of pornification and sexualization more broadly. In this study, I aimed to elicit young people's and teachers' views, concerns and suggestions about the place of porn, and pleasure more broadly, in sex education. I present a thematic content analysis of small friend…
Lesbian porn. Anything girl on girl’
Literature on women’s engagement and experiences as consumers of porn shows an increasing recognition that women are aroused by porn. The research reported here observed and analyzed young women’s discussions around online porn on three English-language internet forums. By drawing on qualitative methodology, the understandings of young women on their experiences with lesbian porn are reported. In their discussions about lesbian porn, hetero-ident…
If someone’s freaky, everyone loves it. It’s all about the drama’
The social construction of gender and sexuality is compounded by neoliberalist, individualistic and competitive notions of choice and empowerment. This study draws on small friendship group interviews with 106 self-selecting young people, aged 12–16, in three schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Young women live their digital sexual lives in a context characterized by feelings of powerlessness. This sense of powerlessness was somewhat reduced through…
‘I guess girls can be more emotional’
Often focusing on permission to act or not to act, debates about sexual consent are multifaceted and enduring. The pervasive presence of digital technology in young people’s lives has added new complexities to ‘sextual’ consent. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interview data with school-aged young people in Aotearoa New Zealand, this article provides insights into their understandings of consent surrounding the creation and sharing …
You don’t hear about girls sending unwanted photos, there must be a willy waiver!’ Young women’s use of humour as safety work when receiving unsolicited dick pics
The internet has facilitated and exacerbated men’s intrusions through the ability to send unsolicited ‘dick pics’ (DPs) to women. To understand how young women negotiate the gendered context in which they live their digital sexual lives, the research reported here sought to explore how school-aged young women in Aotearoa New Zealand made sense of unsolicited DPs. Unsolicited DPs were strongly differentiated from wanted images, in terms of consent…
Young people’s perceptions of young women’s engagement in sexting
Young women are increasingly engaging with digital sexual media, yet discussion of female desire remains absent or is vilified. This paper examines young women's online sexual expression, as seen through the eyes of both young men and young women. Based on small friendship group interviews conducted with 106 12-16-year-old young women and men in Aotearoa New Zealand, I analysed perceptions of young women's sexual expression. Framed through patria…
When you become addicted to it you start having these unrealistic expectations’
There is ongoing academic and clinical debate over whether someone can be addicted to porn. To gain insights into the role of porn in young people's lives, this research sought to explore young people's understandings of porn as a normal part of their lives, or by contrast, as addictive. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interview data from 106 school-aged young people in New Zealand, I reflect on young people's views on porn addictio…
“I wouldn’t want you talking to my kids!”
Much research has been conducted on young people as a population rather than with them. Traditionally, porn research has focused on effects – on the assumption that people, especially young people, are impacted by the sexual media they consume, which leads to negative outcomes such as violence and addiction. In this sense, porn is framed as risky and children and young people become especially ‘at risk’. Sex, sexuality and sexual media are then p…
They’re Much Too young
Most debates around the place of porn in the classroom focus on abstaining from porn through sex education. Any inclusion of pleasure often entails lengthy consideration of discourses of pornification and sexualization more broadly. In this study, I aimed to elicit young people's and teachers' views, concerns and suggestions about the place of porn, and pleasure more broadly, in sex education. I present a thematic content analysis of small friend…
Dirty work, emotion work and safety work. Experiencing rape threats as a feminist researcher
Violence against women is a pervasive and enduring problem that has been amplified through digital communication technologies. Throughout this reflexive article I analyze the impact of receiving violent rape threats as a feminist academic. I discuss the invisible emotional labour and safety work women scholars undertake to minimize risk, and how this is amplified when our work is considered ‘dirty’. In drawing on my lived experience, I hope to ch…
Watching Porn, (Un)Doing Gender? Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Online Porn
The social construction of gender and pleasure is a dominant discourse that is historically entrenched within New Zealand society. Like elsewhere, New Zealanders have seen an exponential rise in the availability and accessibility of online porn in the past few decades, yet a gap in the literature remains around how young people perform gender while engaging with porn. Drawing on qualitative small friendship group interviews with 106 cis gender yo…
‘The girl was so ashamed she didn’t come back to school for the rest of term’
Women and gender diverse people are more likely than men to experience sexual violence, including image-based sexual abuse. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and workshops with young people aged 12–16 and 16–18 and adults with a vested interest in young people’s digital sexual cultures, I sought to explore attitudes towards image-based sexual abuse and perceptions of young people’s right to sexual knowledge. I found that young women’s bodies, s…
‘We Teach Kids About It So They Don't Get Addicted’
This research sought to explore young people's and teachers' understandings of porn. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of small focus group interview data with 106 young people aged 12–16 years old and semi‐structured interviews with six teachers in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I examine their perceptions of porn and the place of porn in sex education. All of the young people were aware of porn and the majority viewed it through a gendered lens…
Do feminists send nudes? How young women navigate sexting and feminism
To gain insights into how young women negotiate the gendered context in which they live their digital sexual lives, the research reported here sought to explore young people’s understandings of feminism with regards to sexting. Drawing on small friendship group interviews with young people in Aotearoa, New Zealand, I reflect on 12–16 year old young people’s negotiation of sexting and subjectivity in a post-feminist landscape. The young women in t…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (12 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Human sexuality (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Sex work and related issues (7 obras) · Friendship (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Perception (4 obras)