#3244. “Up for it” or “asking for it”? Violence against women in the age of postfeminism

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Abstract:
Postfeminist young women are encouraged to “embrace” their sexuality by sexualizing their bodies as a means of empowerment. In stark contrast, dominant understandings of violence identify these same bodily displays as risk factors, condemning women who enact them as “asking for” victimization. This paper explores the ways in which these conflicting discursive constructions of the body are enacted by participants in their everyday lives. While participants took up varied sensibilities of the body and empowerment, participants uniformly discussed perceptions of risk that inscribed the female body as vulnerable. More broadly, data suggests that postfeminist (and other) visions of the body that appear to otherwise produce lived experiences of empowerment are deemed invalid in contexts of risk.
Keywords:
harassment; postfeminism; qualitative research; sexualization; victim-blame

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