Girls will be served until you have to carry them out”
Gendered serving practices in Oslo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15397642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Buvik (0000-0001-5874-0114, corresponding author), Bergljot Baklien |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-24 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Addiction Research & Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7392 • E-ISSN: 1606-6359 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3109/16066359.2015.1049536 |
| OpenAlex | W1794958283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 43 |
Research on heavy drinking among women implies that this behaviour is deviant and criticised by society, which would suggest that intoxicated women are more likely than men to be denied alcohol at drinking establishments. However, a recent Norwegian study shows that it is more likely for intoxicated women than intoxicated men to be served alcohol. This article explores gender differences and overserving within licensed establishments. The data consist of qualitative interviews with bartenders and pseudo-patrons. The latter were actors who were seemingly intoxicated while attempting to purchase alcohol at drinking establishments. Our analysis suggests that there are three main reasons why alcohol is served to intoxicated women. First, female patrons are profitable for drinking establishments because their presence causes male patrons to remain at the venue and spend more money. Second, female patrons are regarded as being sexually available to other patrons and staff in the barroom, which is a heavily sexually charged scene. Third, female patrons are considered harmless and their presence even dampens male aggression. In contrast to these explanations, there is some concern for the safety of intoxicated women. The night-time economy in Oslo seems to combine a strictly gendered perception of male and female patrons with a new acceptance of female binge drinking. The overserving of female patrons can be regarded as a consequence of the combination of these two seemingly contradictory tendencies
Aggression · Binge drinking · Criminology · Environmental health · Heavy drinking · Injury prevention · Norwegian · Perception · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
From hooking up to staying in? Women negotiating appropriate sexuality in nightlife with age
Safety strategies, status positioning and gendered double standards
Nightlife as counterspace
Drinking a Lot’ in Denmark, Estonia, and Italy
Navigating nightlife
Bartenders as street-level bureaucrats
Violence involvement among nightlife patrons
Qualitative evaluation and research methods
‘That's OK. He's a guy’
Being cool is risky business
Drinking context and problematic alcohol consumption in young Swedish women
Drinking and moral order
Femininities of drinking among Finnish and Swedish women of different ages
Re-framing ‘binge drinking’ as calculated hedonism
Biologically Responsible Mothers and Girls Who “Act Like Men”
Young Australians and the staging of intoxication and self-control
Inhabiting the contradictions
Male Bar Drinkers' Perspective on Female Bar Drinkers
Changing Gender Norms for Alcohol Consumption
Alcohol Consumption, Gender Identities and Women’s Changing Social Positions
I Just Drink for That Tipsy Stage”
Doing Gender”—“Doing Drugs”
Training bar personnel to prevent drunken driving
Women's intoxication as ‘dual licentiousness
Every Time I Do It I Absolutely Annihilate Myself
The Focused Interview
Drinking Patterns, Social Interaction, and Barroom Behavior
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |