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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6255657
AutoresAnn-Karina Henriksen (0000-0001-5374-3228, Aalborg University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume17
Fascículo4
Páginas491-508
Data de publicação2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796816666592
OpenAlexW2515896501
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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