Valleys' Girls: Re-Theorising Bodies and Agency in a Semi-Rural Post-Industrial Locale

Autor/inn/en	Ivinson, Gabrielle; Renold, Emma
Titel	Valleys' Girls: Re-Theorising Bodies and Agency in a Semi-Rural Post-Industrial Locale
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 25 (2013) 6, S.704-721 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2013.827372
Schlagwörter	Vignettes; Females; Feminism; Human Body; Ethnography; Rural Areas; Working Class; Mining; Self Concept; Futures (of Society); Femininity; Foreign Countries; Semi Structured Interviews; Safety; Community Characteristics; Gender Issues; Longitudinal Studies; Mixed Methods Research; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Feminismus; Menschlicher Körper; Ethnografie; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Arbeiterklasse; Abbau; Selbstkonzept; Future; Society; Zukunft; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Ausland; Sicherheit; Geschlechterfrage; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	This paper draws on materialist feminist theories to rethink relationships between girls' bodies and agency. New feminist onto-epistemologies redefine agency as "becomings" that dynamically emerge through assemblages comprising moving bodies, material, mechanical, organic, virtual, affective and less-than-conscious elements. Vignettes from a multi-modal, ethnographic study conducted over three years are used to demonstrate how place influenced young teen girls' body-movement repertoires. The place was a former coal-mining locale with a proud tradition of masculine, working-class labour. The vignettes focus on corporeality and demonstrate wide variations and fluctuations in girls' experiences of agency, which we theorise through the Deleuzeo-Guatarrian concept of "becoming". We discuss how material feminism(s) helps us to understand girls' becomings as emergent within assemblages that carry legacies of the past. Some girls experienced becomings that could not easily be spoken about yet which allowed them to imagine expansive futures while others felt unable to move on in life. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10