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TAKING UP A POSITION:

Discourses of Femininity and Adolescence in the Context of Man/Girl Relationships

University of Newcastle

The relationship between mainstream femininity and resistance to it has been theorized in a number of ways. In one approach, mainstream femininity is identified as a patriarchal set of public texts that women accept, negotiate, or resist in practice. Another view sees mainstream femininity as a dominant cultural practice to which there are resistant subcultural responses. Taking a poststructuralist view, this article offers an alternative to these models. The focus of the article is the differing ways in which a set of interviewees validated their participation in a type of relationship that is socially constructed as a departure from mainstream femininity, namely, a voluntary sexual relationship between an adult man and an adolescent girl.

Gender & Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 48-72 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/089124394008001004


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