Bodies and agentic practice in young women's sexual and intimate relationships
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Bodies and agentic practice in young women's sexual and intimate relationships. / Maxwell, Claire; Aggleton, Peter.
I: Sociology, Bind 46, Nr. 2, 01.04.2012, s. 306-321.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Bodies and agentic practice in young women's sexual and intimate relationships
AU - Maxwell, Claire
AU - Aggleton, Peter
PY - 2012/4/1
Y1 - 2012/4/1
N2 - This article contributes to theorizations of agency through a focus on how understandings of power within young women's sexual and intimate relationships connect with their descriptions of feeling, reacting and sensuous bodies, to suggest why and how agentic practice takes place. Drawing on the narratives of 54 young women aged 16-18 years in one secondary school in England, findings concur with other literature which suggests that sensations experienced on or within the body can instigate (agentic) practice. Significantly, however, both physical and verbal practices are drawn on during agentic moments. Young women who discursively position themselves as 'powerful' integrate their bodies within such an understanding, using this integration to shore up the possibilities for agentic practice. Moving away from an understanding of practice as 'accommodating' and/or 'resisting' norms and inequalities, this article identifies four strategies described by the young women (assertive, refusing, proactive and interrogative) for facilitating more sustained agency.
AB - This article contributes to theorizations of agency through a focus on how understandings of power within young women's sexual and intimate relationships connect with their descriptions of feeling, reacting and sensuous bodies, to suggest why and how agentic practice takes place. Drawing on the narratives of 54 young women aged 16-18 years in one secondary school in England, findings concur with other literature which suggests that sensations experienced on or within the body can instigate (agentic) practice. Significantly, however, both physical and verbal practices are drawn on during agentic moments. Young women who discursively position themselves as 'powerful' integrate their bodies within such an understanding, using this integration to shore up the possibilities for agentic practice. Moving away from an understanding of practice as 'accommodating' and/or 'resisting' norms and inequalities, this article identifies four strategies described by the young women (assertive, refusing, proactive and interrogative) for facilitating more sustained agency.
KW - Agency
KW - Power
KW - Sex
KW - The body
KW - Young women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84859054669&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0038038511419192
DO - 10.1177/0038038511419192
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84859054669
VL - 46
SP - 306
EP - 321
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
SN - 0038-0385
IS - 2
ER -
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