Analysing Agency

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12898413
AutoresSara Mills (0009-0001-7228-0043, Sheffield Hallam University, autor correspondente), Lucy Jones (0000-0002-8947-9577, University of Hull)
Ano2014
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas225-244
Data de publicação2014-06-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGender and Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-6321 • E-ISSN: 1747-633X
EditoraEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/genl.v8i2.225
OpenAlexW2041457931
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas18

This article analyses online reader responses to the erotic fiction series Fifty Shades, and queries whether fans gain agency by talking about the books. Through the use of queer critical discourse analysis, we argue that fans of Fifty Shades typically acquiesce in the normative gender roles portrayed within the books, but that this facilitates their agency as sexual beings. In particular, we show how the readers in our sample do identity work around their own experiences as heterosexual women. Rather than focusing on representations of gender and sexuality in the novels, then, we argue that representation is best analysed not from a top-down perspective, but through an investigation of how discourses within texts are negotiated and put to use by their readers

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Queer · Representation (politics · Sexual identity · Social science · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising