R Danielle Egan
Biographic Data
| ID | 76521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Danielle Egan |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Danielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Egan |
| SIGNATURE | EGAN R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Children, Sexuality and Sexualization
Disavowal and foundational fantasies: A psychosocial exploration of the class, race and the social construction of the sexual child in the Anglophone West
Archival data offers rich source material for examining the complicated, and often paradoxical, deployment of the sexual child within protection literature crafted in the Anglophone West during the early 19th century. Drawing on a psychosocial framework, I analyze the affective and ideological subtext of social purity narratives in order to understand how and why it came to feel so natural for reformers and their primary audience – middle-class p…
Lost objects: Feminism, sexualisation and melancholia
A prolific discourse on the sexualisation of girls has developed in the Anglophone west. Since 2006, at least six governmental policy papers, four think tank reports, ten parenting manuals as well as over a thousand newspaper articles have been published on the topic. Deconstructing popular feminist narratives, one finds that beneath calls for protection there often resides a deeply ambivalent construction of the middle-class white girl. I argue …
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: How history can help us get past the panic
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
The problem with protection: Or, why we need to move towards recognition and the sexual agency of children
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Landscapes of Erotophobia: The Sexual(ized) Child in the Postmodern Anglophone West
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate Paedophilia
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Imperiled and Perilous: Exploring the History of Childhood Sexuality
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity Movement
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships Between Exotic Dancers and Their Regulars
This book takes an in-depth look at the relationships exotic dancers have with their regular customers, and explores the limits of using feminist theory to discuss sex work. This is an accessible, rev
Resistance under the Black Light: Exploring the Use of Music in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
This article examines how exotic dancers strategically use music in two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. Music functioned as a form of resistance for dancers in three ways: as a direct form of protest against owners, as a covert strategy of reappropriation, and as an overt expression of discontent in their interactions with regular customers. I also analyze the ways in which "buying against" gender inequality, through the use of music,…
You Either Get It or You Don’t”: Conversion Experiences and The Dr. Phil Show
Using The Dr. Phil Show as a case study, this paper explores the processes of secularization and sacralization in the media spectacle of talk television. It argues that TheDr. Phil Showemploys the religious narrative of conversion to frame the personal experiences and the problems of participants. Using discourse analysis, the paper examines two shows that exemplify this narrative: “Addiction” and “The Weight Loss Challenge.” It argues that the m…
Emotional Consumption: Mapping Love and Masochism in an Exotic Dance Club
This article introduces and explores the concept of emotional consumption through an analysis of an exotic dance club in the New England area. Through understanding how regular customers consume the services offered in an exotic dance club, I show how consuming service labor differs dramatically from consuming objects of exchange. Emotional consumption involves psychosocial dynamics, which emerge from the intersubjective relationships between the…
Attempts at a Feminist and Interdisciplinary Conversation About Strip Clubs
In this essay, we analyze two recent publications in Deviant Behavior on the consumption of exotic dance: "Behavioral and Interactional Patterns of Strip Club Patrons: Tipping Techniques and Club Attendance" by Zachary Brewster and "The Gentlemen in the Club: A Typology of Strip Club Patrons" by Erickson and Tewksbury. In so doing, we map their lack of engagement with feminist literature and their lack of attention to issues of positionality, alo…
Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club
This article explores issues of space, surveillance and social control in an exotic dance club in the New England area. Exotic dancers are subject to social control mechanisms by the owner of the club and enforced by the management via surveillance technologies and club 'rules.' Although these rules can be repressive for dancers, the women who work in the club find ways to subvert and resist social control through strategies of evasion and enlist…
I'll be Your Fantasy Girl, If You'll be My Money Man: Mapping Desire, Fantasy and Power in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
INTRODUCTION Exotic dance is a social scene in which patriarchy, feminine resistance, desire, fantasy and power intersect. In this heterosexual social scene, women dance nude or semi-nude for male customers, and get paid for their work on stage, tables, and in cages; and, in many clubs, for their work on the laps of their customers.1 Exotic dance, as a site of commodified erotic exchange, is a large and lucrative component of the overall sex indu…
Eroticism, Commodification and Gender: Exploring Exotic Dance in the United States
The problem with protection: Or, why we need to move towards recognition and the sexual agency of children
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate Paedophilia
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity Movement
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Imperiled and Perilous: Exploring the History of Childhood Sexuality
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
Attempts at a Feminist and Interdisciplinary Conversation About Strip Clubs
In this essay, we analyze two recent publications in Deviant Behavior on the consumption of exotic dance: "Behavioral and Interactional Patterns of Strip Club Patrons: Tipping Techniques and Club Attendance" by Zachary Brewster and "The Gentlemen in the Club: A Typology of Strip Club Patrons" by Erickson and Tewksbury. In so doing, we map their lack of engagement with feminist literature and their lack of attention to issues of positionality, alo…
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: How history can help us get past the panic
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club
This article explores issues of space, surveillance and social control in an exotic dance club in the New England area. Exotic dancers are subject to social control mechanisms by the owner of the club and enforced by the management via surveillance technologies and club 'rules.' Although these rules can be repressive for dancers, the women who work in the club find ways to subvert and resist social control through strategies of evasion and enlist…
I'll be Your Fantasy Girl, If You'll be My Money Man: Mapping Desire, Fantasy and Power in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
INTRODUCTION Exotic dance is a social scene in which patriarchy, feminine resistance, desire, fantasy and power intersect. In this heterosexual social scene, women dance nude or semi-nude for male customers, and get paid for their work on stage, tables, and in cages; and, in many clubs, for their work on the laps of their customers.1 Exotic dance, as a site of commodified erotic exchange, is a large and lucrative component of the overall sex indu…
Landscapes of Erotophobia: The Sexual(ized) Child in the Postmodern Anglophone West
Emotional Consumption: Mapping Love and Masochism in an Exotic Dance Club
This article introduces and explores the concept of emotional consumption through an analysis of an exotic dance club in the New England area. Through understanding how regular customers consume the services offered in an exotic dance club, I show how consuming service labor differs dramatically from consuming objects of exchange. Emotional consumption involves psychosocial dynamics, which emerge from the intersubjective relationships between the…
Eroticism, Commodification and Gender: Exploring Exotic Dance in the United States
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Resistance under the Black Light: Exploring the Use of Music in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
This article examines how exotic dancers strategically use music in two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. Music functioned as a form of resistance for dancers in three ways: as a direct form of protest against owners, as a covert strategy of reappropriation, and as an overt expression of discontent in their interactions with regular customers. I also analyze the ways in which "buying against" gender inequality, through the use of music,…
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
I'll be Your Fantasy Girl, If You'll be My Money Man: Mapping Desire, Fantasy and Power in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
INTRODUCTION Exotic dance is a social scene in which patriarchy, feminine resistance, desire, fantasy and power intersect. In this heterosexual social scene, women dance nude or semi-nude for male customers, and get paid for their work on stage, tables, and in cages; and, in many clubs, for their work on the laps of their customers.1 Exotic dance, as a site of commodified erotic exchange, is a large and lucrative component of the overall sex indu…
Eroticism, Commodification and Gender: Exploring Exotic Dance in the United States
Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club
This article explores issues of space, surveillance and social control in an exotic dance club in the New England area. Exotic dancers are subject to social control mechanisms by the owner of the club and enforced by the management via surveillance technologies and club 'rules.' Although these rules can be repressive for dancers, the women who work in the club find ways to subvert and resist social control through strategies of evasion and enlist…
You Either Get It or You Don’t”: Conversion Experiences and The Dr. Phil Show
Using The Dr. Phil Show as a case study, this paper explores the processes of secularization and sacralization in the media spectacle of talk television. It argues that TheDr. Phil Showemploys the religious narrative of conversion to frame the personal experiences and the problems of participants. Using discourse analysis, the paper examines two shows that exemplify this narrative: “Addiction” and “The Weight Loss Challenge.” It argues that the m…
Emotional Consumption: Mapping Love and Masochism in an Exotic Dance Club
This article introduces and explores the concept of emotional consumption through an analysis of an exotic dance club in the New England area. Through understanding how regular customers consume the services offered in an exotic dance club, I show how consuming service labor differs dramatically from consuming objects of exchange. Emotional consumption involves psychosocial dynamics, which emerge from the intersubjective relationships between the…
Attempts at a Feminist and Interdisciplinary Conversation About Strip Clubs
In this essay, we analyze two recent publications in Deviant Behavior on the consumption of exotic dance: "Behavioral and Interactional Patterns of Strip Club Patrons: Tipping Techniques and Club Attendance" by Zachary Brewster and "The Gentlemen in the Club: A Typology of Strip Club Patrons" by Erickson and Tewksbury. In so doing, we map their lack of engagement with feminist literature and their lack of attention to issues of positionality, alo…
Dancing for Dollars and Paying for Love: The Relationships Between Exotic Dancers and Their Regulars
This book takes an in-depth look at the relationships exotic dancers have with their regular customers, and explores the limits of using feminist theory to discuss sex work. This is an accessible, rev
Resistance under the Black Light: Exploring the Use of Music in Two Exotic Dance Clubs
This article examines how exotic dancers strategically use music in two exotic dance clubs in the New England area. Music functioned as a form of resistance for dancers in three ways: as a direct form of protest against owners, as a covert strategy of reappropriation, and as an overt expression of discontent in their interactions with regular customers. I also analyze the ways in which "buying against" gender inequality, through the use of music,…
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity: Childhood Sexuality and the Social Purity Movement
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Landscapes of Erotophobia: The Sexual(ized) Child in the Postmodern Anglophone West
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects: Unpacking the Discourse on Sexualization
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements: Deconstructing the Discourse of Corporate Paedophilia
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Imperiled and Perilous: Exploring the History of Childhood Sexuality
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
The problem with protection: Or, why we need to move towards recognition and the sexual agency of children
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: How history can help us get past the panic
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
Disavowal and foundational fantasies: A psychosocial exploration of the class, race and the social construction of the sexual child in the Anglophone West
Archival data offers rich source material for examining the complicated, and often paradoxical, deployment of the sexual child within protection literature crafted in the Anglophone West during the early 19th century. Drawing on a psychosocial framework, I analyze the affective and ideological subtext of social purity narratives in order to understand how and why it came to feel so natural for reformers and their primary audience – middle-class p…
Lost objects: Feminism, sexualisation and melancholia
A prolific discourse on the sexualisation of girls has developed in the Anglophone west. Since 2006, at least six governmental policy papers, four think tank reports, ten parenting manuals as well as over a thousand newspaper articles have been published on the topic. Deconstructing popular feminist narratives, one finds that beneath calls for protection there often resides a deeply ambivalent construction of the middle-class white girl. I argue …
Children, Sexuality and Sexualization
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