Growing up Sexualized

Issues of Power and Violence in the Lives of Female Exotic Dancers

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12437894
AutoresJennifer K Wesely (0000-0001-7941-449X, University of Central Florida, autor correspondente)
Ano2002
Volume8
Fascículo10
Páginas1182-1207
Data de publicação2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/107780120200801003
OpenAlexW4232481742
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas19

In a modern patriarchal society, women often receive the message that their appearance and sexuality dictate their value as human beings. Some populations, like exotic dancers, capitalize on this construction by receiving monetary rewards for the visual and physical consumption of their sexual bodies. Through interviews with female exotic dancers, the author investigates the ways that these women were sexualized at a young age, often through abuse. The author probes how they negotiated both their child and adult sexual selves and how this intersected with feelings of power and powerlessness and their eventual choices to become dancers. This study demonstrates the complexity of the lives of these women as they try to reclaim power by selling their sexualized bodies for money while still enduring abuse within this context

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Feeling · Human sexuality · Medical emergency · Poison control · Power (physics · Sexual abuse · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology