TAKING UP A POSITION:
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 8 (1) , 48-72
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124394008001004
Abstract
The relationship between mainstream femininity and resistance to it has been theorized in a number of ways. In one approach, mainstream femininity is identified as a patriarchal set of public texts that women accept, negotiate, or resist in practice. Another view sees mainstream femininity as a dominant cultural practice to which there are resistant subcultural responses. Taking a poststructuralist view, this article offers an alternative to these models. The focus of the article is the differing ways in which a set of interviewees validated their participation in a type of relationship that is socially constructed as a departure from mainstream femininity, namely, a voluntary sexual relationship between an adult man and an adolescent girl.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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