Mobilizing Metaphor: Considering Complexities, Contradictions, and Contexts in Adolescent Girls-and Young Women’s Sexual Agency

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• 作者：Deborah L. Tolman ; Stephanie M. Anderson ; Kimberly Belmonte
• 关键词：Adolescents ; Young women ; Sexual agency ; Neoliberalism ; Slut
• 刊名：Sex Roles
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：73
• 期：7-8
• 页码：298-310
• 全文大小：462 KB
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• 作者单位：Deborah L. Tolman (1)
  Stephanie M. Anderson (1)
  Kimberly Belmonte (1)
  
  1. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Sexual Behavior
  Interdisciplinary Studies
  Sociology
  Anthropology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2762

文摘

With clarity and elegance, Bay-Cheng (2015) has provided a solid articulation of how neoliberalism has infiltrated the sexual lives of many girls and young women. Without question, research in the U.S. and the Anglophone West, as well as current trends in popular culture and the media in these locales, warrant recognizing neoliberal sexual agency and understanding the variety of ways it interacts with the slut/prude/virgin continuum. While some research has evidenced the salience of neoliberal sexual agency for some adolescent girls, we depart with Bay-Cheng’s (2015) assertion that developmental and age differences not be taken into account and question the primacy of neoliberal sexual agency as a new and comparable hegemony to the slut/prude/virgin continuum. We suggest that there remain other forms of sexual agency that should not be displaced or disregarded and wonder whether a paradigm shift from model to metaphor may be helpful for capturing the complexity, contradictions and contexts that constitute girls-and young women’s sexuality. Keywords Adolescents Young women Sexual agency Neoliberalism Slut