If someone’s freaky, everyone loves it. It’s all about the drama’

Young women’s responses and reactions to image based sexual abuse of other young women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12255232
AutoresClaire Meehan (0000-0001-8795-0102, University of Auckland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas231-242
Fecha de publicación2021-06-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2021.1937962
OpenAlexW3176000214
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas48

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 making connections. Responding to other women’s non-consensually shared images with horizontal hostility is one manifestation. Doing so allowed girls to understand what is sexually permissible, as well as maintaining their friendships through connection. Similar to creating and consensually sharing intimate images as a means of making sexual relationships, this process of othering victims to conserve friendships reproduces existing inequalities

Aotearoa · Context (archaeology · Drama · Empowerment · Feeling · Friendship · Hostility · Human sexuality · Individualism · Political science · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Social Psychology