Ringrose, Jessica;
Renold, Emma;
(2012)
Slut shaming, girl power and sexualisation : Thinking through the politics of the international SlutWalks with teen girls.
Gender and Education
, 24
(3)
pp. 333-343.
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Abstract
This viewpoint begins by exploring whether the global phenomenon of the 2011 ‘SlutWalks’ constitutes a feminist politics of re-signification. We then look at some qualitative, focus group data with teen girls who participated in a UK SlutWalk. We suggest girls are not only negotiating a schizoid double pull towards performing knowing sexy ‘slut’ in postfeminist media contexts, but also managing de-sexualising protectionist discourses in school, particularly in relation to the highly regulatory moral panic over child ‘sexualistion’. We consider whether the SlutWalks are adult-centric and if teen girls’ involvement in a SlutWalk offered any critical rupturings to sexual regulation in their everyday lives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Slut shaming, girl power and sexualisation : Thinking through the politics of the international SlutWalks with teen girls |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10011877 |
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