What does sexualisation mean

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367284
AutoresR Duschinsky (0000-0003-2023-5328, Northumbria University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen14
Número3
Páginas255-264
Fecha de publicación2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700113499842
OpenAlexW2161584561
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas25

Sexualisation' has been dismissed by some as no more than yet another moral panic about youth and sex. However, it is striking that the term appears to have helped galvanise feminist activism, speaking in some way to the experiences of young people. Building from a history and analysis of the term, I propose that 'sexualisation' has served as an interpretive theory of contradictory gender norms, using the figure of the 'girl' to gesture towards an intensifying contradiction between the demands that young women display both desirability and innocence. In addressing sexist dimensions of gender norms through the figure of the 'girl', a minor, discourses on sexualisation can help circumvent liberal objections about free choice. However, I also express concern that the term has facilitated a focus in media and policy texts which attends less to gender inequity than to sexuality as a contaminant of young femininity

Contradiction · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Femininity · Girl · Human sexuality · Innocence · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology