Who knows? On the epistemic status of experience in sugar-dating research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4367241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelina Johansson Wilén (0000-0002-4908-1783, Örebro University, corresponding author), Lena Gunnarsson (0000-0002-7766-8696, Örebro University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 359-375 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14647001231186525 |
| OpenAlex | W4385241268 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 33 |
Sugar dating has gained extensive media coverage over the last couple of years, often being depicted as a veiled form of prostitution / sex work. While similar dating arrangements encompassing some sort of economic compensation are well researched in an African and Asian context, sugar dating has only garnered attention from researchers in the Global North during the last decade, in the wake of a proliferation of websites facilitating the practice. In light of the contested nature of the phenomenon, in this article we critically assess how knowledge about sugar dating is constructed in the emerging literature on the topic in the Global North, with a particular focus on the role attributed to sugar daters' own experiential accounts. Alongside furthering the discourse on sugar dating by unravelling the epistemological underpinnings of existing research, we utilise the case of sugar-dating research to elaborate on the continued relevance of feminist debates on the epistemological status of experience. We call for a more comprehensive theoretical examination of experience in sugar-dating research and posit that some versions of feminist standpoint theory, as well as strands in feminist phenomenology, provide valuable theoretical tools for navigating between understanding experience as an ideological construct and/or as a privileged foundation of knowledge
Archaeology · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Sex work and related issues
Retrieving Experience
The Ideological Condition
The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays
Prostitutes, Sex Surrogates and Sugar Babies
Receiving Gifts for Sex in Moscow, Kyiv, and Minsk
From Seeking Financialships to Satisfying Curiosity
Love as a Fictitious Commodity
Blurred lines
I have bills to pay!’ Sugar dating in British higher education institutions
In Defense of Experience
Reconstituting the Subject
Excuse Me, But Are You Raping Me Now?” Discourse and Experience in (the Grey Areas of) Sexual Violence
Sugar Dating, Perceptions of Power, and Condom Use
Sugaring
Chemistry or Service? Sugar Daddies’ (Re)quest for Mutuality within the Confines of Commercial Exchange
The misguided search for the political
Making feminist claims in the post-truth era
Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics
Affective solidarity
Sweetening the deal
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating
It's Its Own Thing
Social Exchange and Sexual Behavior in Young Women's Premarital Relationships in Kenya
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden
The Evidence of Experience
Sugaring as a deviant career
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |