I was a scarf-like gangster girl’ – Negotiating gender and ethnicity on the street

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6255657
AutoresAnn-Karina Henriksen (0000-0001-5374-3228, Aalborg University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas491-508
Fecha de publicación2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796816666592
OpenAlexW2515896501
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas35

Drawing on an ethnographic study in Copenhagen, this article explores the gendered ethnicities of young women navigating multi-ethnic street terrains. The study includes an ethnically heterogeneous sample of 25 women aged 13–23 who are involved in street-oriented peer groups and activities. The analysis demonstrates how young women modify their lifestyle, language, body and posture to establish proximity to ethnic minority youth. By applying intersectional theory, the article explores gender and ethnicity as situational accomplishments, and it is argued that ethnic identifications in this context need to be explored as flexible and fluid, changing, not only over a lifetime, but within a single day. This exploration of young women’s gendered ethnicities adds to the limited research on the gendered and racialized dynamics of street culture

Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Geography · Girl · Intersectionality · Negotiation · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Homelessness and Social Issues · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology