'I'M A SEX KITTEN, AREN'T I ...' Meah, Angela; Hockey, Jenny; Robinson, Victoria
Australian feminist studies,
03/2011, Letnik:
26, Številka:
67
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article draws on data collected as part of a two-year funded study concerning the making of modern heterosexuality in the East Yorkshire region of England. The starting point for our ...family-based empirical project has been to problematise feminist theorising that has conceptualised heterosexuality as a monolithic and static category in which women (and men) are denied agency. Via participants' nuanced accounts of being and becoming heterosexual, we identify the existence of a multiplicity of heterosexualities and begin to appreciate differences in meaning and experiences, acknowledging the creative capacity of some of our women participants to subvert the structural conditions they are assumed to be subordinated to. Sexuality and sexual practice have long been argued to be the cornerstone of women's subordination, and our data are laden with examples of mothers, daughters and grand-daughters 'giving in' to male sexual desires. But these were not the only stories. This paper focuses on the experiences of women, now aged 50+, who spoke of sex not only as pleasurable but also as something they actively pursued, both as young women and in their later years. In recognising a diversity of heterosexual experiences, this allows for a more inclusive feminist politics which might speak to a wider group of women than previously.
Ideal Homes? Tony Chapman, Jenny Hockey
1999, 20020911, 2002
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Ideal Homes? shows how both popular images and experiences of home life relate to the ability of society's members to produce and respond to social change. The book provides for the first time an ...analysis of the space of the home and the experiences of home life by writers from a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, architecture, geography and anthropology. It covers a range of subjects, including gender roles, different generations relationships to home, the changing nature of the family, transition and risk and alternative visions of home.
After Writing Culture Andrew Dawson, Jenny Hockey, Allison James
1997, 20031216, 2003, 1997-04-10, 2003-12-16, Letnik:
34
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This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions ...raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s. It includes discussion of issues such as: * the concept of caste in Indian society * scottish ethnography * how dreams are culturally conceptualised * representations of the family * culture as conservation * gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan * representation in rural Japan * people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia * representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.
Death, Gender and Ethnicity David Field, Dr David Field, Jenny Hockey, Neil Small
1997, 20020104, 2002, 1997-04-10, 2002-01-04, 19970101
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Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal event ...of death is encountered. It brings together accounts of how these experiences are actually managed with analyses of a range of representations of dying and grieving in order to provide a more theoretical approach to the relationship between death, gender and ethnicity. Though death and dying have been an increasingly important focus for academics and clinicians over the last thirty years, much of this work provides little insight into the impact of gender and ethnicity on the experience. The result is often a universalising representation which fails to take account of the personally unique and culturally specific experiences associated with a death. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, Death, Gender and Ethnicity develops a more sensitive theoretical approach which will be invaluable reading for students and practitioners in health studies, sociology, social work and medical anthropology.
As a founding member of the Mortality editorial board and a key contributor in the establishment of death studies, Jenny Hockey requires little introduction. This article celebrates Jenny's extensive ...contributions and looks at her involvement in the development of the death and dying field. In our interview, Jenny reflects on her personal experiences of doing death research and being a researcher, while demonstrating the ways in which personal experiences impact on to research interests. This article provides an insight into Jenny's recollections of the early days of Mortality as well as the beginnings of death studies, highlighting Jenny's important and enduring role in the growth of the field.
Drawing on qualitative data from young men and their female partners in their twenties, this paper critically reviews debates about young people's perceptions of their futures. It argues that the ...anticipation of either a 'destructured' or a 'standardised' life course does not simply vary between different categories of young people; rather, it shows young people's experience of tension between these two trajectories. Moreover, in the case of estate agents and firefighters, interviewing both members of a couple revealed gendered differences in how future trajectories were being realised, women tending to direct and 'manage' young men's orientations towards 'adulthood', often by asserting chronologised milestones. In that our sample drew young men from three occupations with cultures seen as more or less stereotypically masculinised or feminised (firefighters, estate agents and hairdressers), our data also show class and occupational differences and, among estate agents and firefighters, their reflection in the gendered negotiations that contributed to couples' everyday heterosexual lives. At the intersection between gendered patterns of work, consumption, and fertility, then, young estate agents and firefighters and their female partners sought to plan shared lives that nonetheless cleaved to sometimes competing priorities. Reprinted by permission of Taylor and Francis Ltd.
This article investigates the impact of natural burial on the delivery of ecosystem services (ESs) in urban cemeteries in England that are owned and managed by local authorities. Local authority ...natural burial sites have received far less attention from researchers than independent sites developed by farmers, charitable trusts, funeral directors and land owners. Here we argue that the local authority hybrid cemeteries that combine natural burial with traditional graves may have a far greater impact in delivering regulatory and cultural ecosystem services than the much larger and frequently more environmentally ambitious natural burial grounds developed by the independent sector. The article presents three case studies of cemeteries, each of which represents a different interpretation of natural burial. Two have retrofitted natural burial into an existing cemetery landscape. The third is a new cemetery where natural burial was included with traditional burial in the original design brief and planning application. The research reveals how natural burial is transforming the traditional cemetery, with its focus on an intensively managed lawn aesthetic, towards a more habitat rich and spatially complex landscape with its own distinctive identity. The research also reveals how natural burial (within the unique constraints of UK burial culture that does not permit the recycling of burial space) is increasing the burial capacity of urban cemeteries by accessing land and grave space that might not be suitable or appropriate for more traditional forms of burial.
Drawing on data from an Economic and Social Research Council‐funded project, this article explores the implications of different occupational cultures for men's masculine identity. With a focus on ...embodiment and individual agency, it explores the argument that it is within ‘scenes of constraint’ that gendered identities are both ‘done’ and ‘undone’. In this article we examine embodied experience in occupational cultures commonly stereotyped as ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ (hairdressing, estate agency and firefighting), showing how men conform to, draw upon and resist the gendered stereotypes associated with these occupations. What we argue is that gendered conceptions of ‘the body’ need to be differentiated from individual men's embodiment. Instead, processes of identification can be shown to emerge via embodied experiences of particular kinds of gendered body, and in the ways in which men negotiate the perception of these bodies in different occupational contexts.
This empirically grounded article draws on an ESRC-funded project on footwear, identity and transition to offer new understandings of how a linear model of the life course may, in practice, be ...disrupted, subverted or reconfigured. Combining the insights of material culture and life course studies, it develops the notion of a temporal landscape of shoes within which their scope for interrupting life course temporalities can be explored. In particular, it identifies four temporal strategies made possible through the symbolic efficacy of footwear: the retrieval of an earlier identity through the purchase of styles previously worn; the deferral of later life by rejecting comfortable shoes that might symbolically reposition someone as ‘old’; the release of former age-based identities and the embracing of freedom from a felt need to wear impractical or painful shoes; the appropriation or reconfiguring of the past as a contemporary resource through the wearing of vintage/hand-me-down shoes.
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