Keep your eyes open’
HBCU women’s peer sexual advice and the (re)production of vigilance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mercedez Dunn-Gallier (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1056-1071 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2023.2291395 |
| PMID | 38146738 |
| OpenAlex | W4390230423 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Discursive practices position Black women as racial, gendered, and sexual others. There remains a need to understand how Black women craft sexualities given this backdrop. This paper draws on sexual and dating advice from 30 semi-structured interviews to examine how cisgender heterosexual undergraduate women enrolled at a Historically Black College/University in the USA constructed and promoted heterosexualities. Neoliberalism, racialised risk narratives and notions of Black womanhood converge to frame how participants articulated their roles and the roles of women like them in maintaining sexual health and social status at the nexus of race and gender oppression, and in respect of aspirational Black feminine middle-class identities. Overarching messages in their peer advice revealed gender-specific expectations about sexual responsibility through self-reliance and sexual respectability through heterosexual monogamy. The present study expands sexualities research through an intersectional approach that examines the implications of racialised, gendered and classed meanings of Black sexuality and womanhood in an understudied population. Findings identify peer sexual advice as a rhetorical tool that simultaneously resists and reproduces power structures
Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Oppression · Political science · Population · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |