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What does sexualisation mean?

Robbie Duschinsky

Feminist Theory 14 (3):255-264 (2013)

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Embodying sexualisation: When theory meets practice in intergenerational feminist activism.Deborah Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown & Dana Edell - 2013 - Feminist Theory 14 (3):275-284.details This interchange explores the role of girl (ages thirteen to twenty-two) activism in the USA organisation SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge). Some of the many initiatives and programmes SPARK has enacted with girls, including online forums, blog spaces, marches, and summits directly address recent calls to attend to the complexity in understanding and resisting ‘sexualisation’ with teen girls. Several of the girls’ media appearances are explored in detail to illustrate the dynamics of girls’ agency and resistance that emerge in (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Truth, purification and power: Foucault’s genealogy of purity and impurity in and after The Will to Know lectures.Kate Lampitt Adey & Robbie Duschinsky - 2014 - European Journal of Social Theory 17 (4):425-442.details Foucault’s 1970–71 lectures at the Collège de France, The Will to Know, highlight the significance of themes of purity and impurity in Western thought. Reflecting on these themes coincided with the emergence of Foucault’s theory of power. This article presents the first analysis of Foucault’s investigation of purity and impurity in The Will to Know lectures, identifying the distinctive theory Foucault offers of purity as a discursive apparatus addressing correspondence between the subject and the truth through the image of relative (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Sexualisation, or the queer feminist provocations of Miley Cyrus.Kate McNicholas Smith - 2017 - Feminist Theory 18 (3):281-298.details Miley Cyrus has increasingly occupied debates at the centre of feminist engagements with popular culture. Evoking concerns around young women and ‘sexualisation’, Cyrus emerges as a convergent signifier of sexualised media content and the girl-at-risk. As Cyrus is repeatedly invoked in these debates, she comes to function as the bad object of young femininity. Arguing, however, that Cyrus troubles the sexualisation thesis in the provocations of her creative practice, I suggest that this contested media figure exceeds the frames through which (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Lost objects: Feminism, sexualisation and melancholia.R. Danielle Egan - 2013 - Feminist Theory 14 (3):265-274.details A prolific discourse on the sexualisation of girls has developed in the Anglophone west. Since 2006, at least six governmental policy papers, four think tank reports, ten parenting manuals as well as over a thousand newspaper articles have been published on the topic. Deconstructing popular feminist narratives, one finds that beneath calls for protection there often resides a deeply ambivalent construction of the middle-class white girl. I argue that these narratives are beset by a melancholic subtext, one that is fuelled (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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