Sarah Oerton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Oerton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Oerton |
| SIGNATURE | OERTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Key Issues in Sex Education
Drawing upon critical reflections of staff and student experiences of teaching, learning and assessment on an undergraduate module entitled Key Issues in Sex Education, we discuss the strategies used to engage students in debates around sex and relationships education (SRE). To date, there is little research which evaluates how formal assessments can be made relevant to students' exploration of this subject. In the case of this module, assessment…
Devolution and difference
Drawing upon analysis of policy documents and interviews with key policy makers and professionals co-ordinating Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in various settings, this paper interrogates the socio-political drivers underpinning SRE policy and practice with reference to the contemporary Welsh context. In media output in the UK context and beyond, there have been widespread public concerns about the over-sexualization of young girls, sexual…
Illicit and Illegal
This book is about the surprisingly neglected area of the regulation of sex. It describes and discusses the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. Its primary focus is upon the multiple and complex social controls (laws, statutory regulations, professional/occupational codes, normative frameworks) constructing, constituting and shaping how we 'do' sex, and deals with sex that…
Old Wine in New (Champagne) Bottles
Illicit and illegal
This book is about the surprisingly neglected area of the regulation of sex. It describes and discusses the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. Its primary focus is upon the multiple and complex social controls (laws, statutory regulations, professional/occupational codes, normative frameworks) constructing, constituting and shaping how we 'do' sex, and deals with sex that…
Touch talk
Drawing upon research with therapeutic bodywork practitioners in which the researcher's naked or semi-clad body was deployed as a 'touch tool' in order to access the field and generate grounded theory, this paper explores the various meanings that inhere in producing embodied research. Through unpicking a number of problems and paradoxes, a plethora of (dis)embodied bodies/selves are identified. This allows for a more nuanced exploration of the r…
Bodywork Boundaries
In the last decade or so, complementary and alternative medicine generally, and therapeutic bodywork in particular, has been attempting to enhance its professional status and standing. By focusing upon the sex/gender dimensions of therapeutic massage and the wider historical, cultural and legal contexts in which such work is situated, this article explores and analyses the discursive formations and practices which women therapeutic massage practi…
Sex/Bodywork
Drawing upon theoretical work which locates the body, sex and sexuality as discursively constituted, this article moves towards a richer understanding of how such discursive formations are mapped on to, and yet simultaneously disavowed in, the narrative accounts of women engaged in sex work and bodywork. Based upon interviews with sauna- and home-based prostitute women and women therapeutic massage practitioners, the article examines those discur…
Voices from the Valleys
This paper focuses upon an interdisciplinary research project the authors are currently engaged in, specifically designed to address the inattention paid so far to lone mothers voices in the Rhondda Valleys in Mid Glamorgan, South Wales. This is an area characterised by high unemployment, community restructuring and fragmenting kinship patterns and, according to analysis of the 1991 Census data, Mid Glamorgan ranks ninth highest in the UK in term…
Reclaiming the ‘Housewife’
This article addresses the contention that some research on household work in non-heterosexual households has been characterized by a tendency to 'empty' such households of any processes and practices associated with gendering. As a result, lesbians, particularly in co-residing, couple households, have been seen as having more egalitarian, democratic divisions of household labour. This article takes issue with such analyses and argues for the cen…
Happy Families
FOR THOSE OF US who have been following how lone parents are represented in media and political debates over the last few years, the shift was all too apparent. By Spring 1997, the political scapegoating of single mothers as being responsible for tearing apart the moral fabric of society had become less frequent; tabloid headlines which screamed 'family breakdown', 'scroungers' and 'welfare benefit crisis' appeared less often; and many politician…
Queer housewives?”
Sexualizing the Organization, Lesbianizing the Women
This article draws upon research with men and women workers in ‘flat’ organizations, namely mixed‐sex and all‐women's worker co‐operatives and collectives in the voluntary sector. It argues that the denial of sales, contracts and grants to women's co‐operatives and collectives in particular, can be connected to discourses of sexuality generally and to the assumptions surrounding lesbianism and separatism in particular. Such discourses are often u…
Exploring women workers' motives for employment in cooperative and collective organizations
This article explores women workers’ motives for employment in cooperatives and collectives. On the basis of interviews with thirty women working in all‐women or women‐only and in mixed‐sex cooperatives and collectives, it is argued that there are gender‐specific issues which inform women's entry into less or non‐hierarchical organizations and which have hitherto gone unanalysed in the literature on cooperatives and collectives. These issues can …
Sex/Bodywork
Drawing upon theoretical work which locates the body, sex and sexuality as discursively constituted, this article moves towards a richer understanding of how such discursive formations are mapped on to, and yet simultaneously disavowed in, the narrative accounts of women engaged in sex work and bodywork. Based upon interviews with sauna- and home-based prostitute women and women therapeutic massage practitioners, the article examines those discur…
Queer housewives?”
Bodywork Boundaries
In the last decade or so, complementary and alternative medicine generally, and therapeutic bodywork in particular, has been attempting to enhance its professional status and standing. By focusing upon the sex/gender dimensions of therapeutic massage and the wider historical, cultural and legal contexts in which such work is situated, this article explores and analyses the discursive formations and practices which women therapeutic massage practi…
Reclaiming the ‘Housewife’
This article addresses the contention that some research on household work in non-heterosexual households has been characterized by a tendency to 'empty' such households of any processes and practices associated with gendering. As a result, lesbians, particularly in co-residing, couple households, have been seen as having more egalitarian, democratic divisions of household labour. This article takes issue with such analyses and argues for the cen…
Sexualizing the Organization, Lesbianizing the Women
This article draws upon research with men and women workers in ‘flat’ organizations, namely mixed‐sex and all‐women's worker co‐operatives and collectives in the voluntary sector. It argues that the denial of sales, contracts and grants to women's co‐operatives and collectives in particular, can be connected to discourses of sexuality generally and to the assumptions surrounding lesbianism and separatism in particular. Such discourses are often u…
Touch talk
Drawing upon research with therapeutic bodywork practitioners in which the researcher's naked or semi-clad body was deployed as a 'touch tool' in order to access the field and generate grounded theory, this paper explores the various meanings that inhere in producing embodied research. Through unpicking a number of problems and paradoxes, a plethora of (dis)embodied bodies/selves are identified. This allows for a more nuanced exploration of the r…
Exploring women workers' motives for employment in cooperative and collective organizations
This article explores women workers’ motives for employment in cooperatives and collectives. On the basis of interviews with thirty women working in all‐women or women‐only and in mixed‐sex cooperatives and collectives, it is argued that there are gender‐specific issues which inform women's entry into less or non‐hierarchical organizations and which have hitherto gone unanalysed in the literature on cooperatives and collectives. These issues can …
Exploring women workers' motives for employment in cooperative and collective organizations
This article explores women workers’ motives for employment in cooperatives and collectives. On the basis of interviews with thirty women working in all‐women or women‐only and in mixed‐sex cooperatives and collectives, it is argued that there are gender‐specific issues which inform women's entry into less or non‐hierarchical organizations and which have hitherto gone unanalysed in the literature on cooperatives and collectives. These issues can …
Sexualizing the Organization, Lesbianizing the Women
This article draws upon research with men and women workers in ‘flat’ organizations, namely mixed‐sex and all‐women's worker co‐operatives and collectives in the voluntary sector. It argues that the denial of sales, contracts and grants to women's co‐operatives and collectives in particular, can be connected to discourses of sexuality generally and to the assumptions surrounding lesbianism and separatism in particular. Such discourses are often u…
Queer housewives?”
Reclaiming the ‘Housewife’
This article addresses the contention that some research on household work in non-heterosexual households has been characterized by a tendency to 'empty' such households of any processes and practices associated with gendering. As a result, lesbians, particularly in co-residing, couple households, have been seen as having more egalitarian, democratic divisions of household labour. This article takes issue with such analyses and argues for the cen…
Happy Families
FOR THOSE OF US who have been following how lone parents are represented in media and political debates over the last few years, the shift was all too apparent. By Spring 1997, the political scapegoating of single mothers as being responsible for tearing apart the moral fabric of society had become less frequent; tabloid headlines which screamed 'family breakdown', 'scroungers' and 'welfare benefit crisis' appeared less often; and many politician…
Voices from the Valleys
This paper focuses upon an interdisciplinary research project the authors are currently engaged in, specifically designed to address the inattention paid so far to lone mothers voices in the Rhondda Valleys in Mid Glamorgan, South Wales. This is an area characterised by high unemployment, community restructuring and fragmenting kinship patterns and, according to analysis of the 1991 Census data, Mid Glamorgan ranks ninth highest in the UK in term…
Sex/Bodywork
Drawing upon theoretical work which locates the body, sex and sexuality as discursively constituted, this article moves towards a richer understanding of how such discursive formations are mapped on to, and yet simultaneously disavowed in, the narrative accounts of women engaged in sex work and bodywork. Based upon interviews with sauna- and home-based prostitute women and women therapeutic massage practitioners, the article examines those discur…
Touch talk
Drawing upon research with therapeutic bodywork practitioners in which the researcher's naked or semi-clad body was deployed as a 'touch tool' in order to access the field and generate grounded theory, this paper explores the various meanings that inhere in producing embodied research. Through unpicking a number of problems and paradoxes, a plethora of (dis)embodied bodies/selves are identified. This allows for a more nuanced exploration of the r…
Bodywork Boundaries
In the last decade or so, complementary and alternative medicine generally, and therapeutic bodywork in particular, has been attempting to enhance its professional status and standing. By focusing upon the sex/gender dimensions of therapeutic massage and the wider historical, cultural and legal contexts in which such work is situated, this article explores and analyses the discursive formations and practices which women therapeutic massage practi…
Illicit and illegal
This book is about the surprisingly neglected area of the regulation of sex. It describes and discusses the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. Its primary focus is upon the multiple and complex social controls (laws, statutory regulations, professional/occupational codes, normative frameworks) constructing, constituting and shaping how we 'do' sex, and deals with sex that…
Old Wine in New (Champagne) Bottles
Illicit and Illegal
This book is about the surprisingly neglected area of the regulation of sex. It describes and discusses the ways in which various sexual activities are controlled, regulated and made illegal and/or deviant and illicit. Its primary focus is upon the multiple and complex social controls (laws, statutory regulations, professional/occupational codes, normative frameworks) constructing, constituting and shaping how we 'do' sex, and deals with sex that…
Key Issues in Sex Education
Drawing upon critical reflections of staff and student experiences of teaching, learning and assessment on an undergraduate module entitled Key Issues in Sex Education, we discuss the strategies used to engage students in debates around sex and relationships education (SRE). To date, there is little research which evaluates how formal assessments can be made relevant to students' exploration of this subject. In the case of this module, assessment…
Devolution and difference
Drawing upon analysis of policy documents and interviews with key policy makers and professionals co-ordinating Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in various settings, this paper interrogates the socio-political drivers underpinning SRE policy and practice with reference to the contemporary Welsh context. In media output in the UK context and beyond, there have been widespread public concerns about the over-sexualization of young girls, sexual…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works)