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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12255232
AutoresClaire Meehan (0000-0001-8795-0102, University of Auckland, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas231-242
Data de publicação2021-06-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2021.1937962
OpenAlexW3176000214
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências 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