Defining Women
Notes Toward an Understanding of Structure and Agency in the Negotiation of Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2366471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer L Dunn (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 479-510 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124198026004004 |
| OpenAlex | W2011986428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 17 |
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate women's accounts of early sexual experience examines structural factors and interpretations of these frameworks to explain decision making. The author articulates coercive historical, cultural, and hierarchical contexts; processes of interpretation; and interactional strategies. An examination of tactics women employ in their quest for valued identities shifts attention from victimization and agency to the negotiation of these identities and links individual actors to larger social structures. The author argues that a woman is neither simply the product of her circumstances (a victim) nor the producer of her world (a powerful female) but, rather, she is both
Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Negotiation · Product (mathematics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology
Examining and Reconceptualizing Self-authorship for Undergraduate Student-mothers
Polyamorous Women, Sexual Subjectivity and Power
Accounting for Victimization
Protecting the Ladies
What Love Has to Do with It
It is Not Just about Me”
The economy of risk and respect
Reflections on the Sexual Agency of Young Women in a Low-Income Rural South African Community
Good Girl or Flirt Girl
Managing the Student-Parent Dilemma
Monogamy Lite
I Believe We Are the Fewer, the Prouder
Getting Married, Breaking up, and Making Up for Lost Time
Victims' and 'Survivors
Identity Dilemmas
Women
Coming of age in New Jersey
With the Boys
Symbolic Interactionism
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Gender Advertisements
Heterosexual Courtship Violence and Sexual Harassment
Sexual Assault Experience in Adulthood and Prior Victimization Experiences
Social Behavior and Personality
Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
Women in College
The Body, Identity, and Self
Goffman's legacy to political sociology
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |