"Don't Be a Whore, that's Not Ladylike": Discursive Discipline and Sorority Women's Gendered Subjectivity

Autor/in	Berbary, Lisbeth A.
Titel	"Don't Be a Whore, that's Not Ladylike": Discursive Discipline and Sorority Women's Gendered Subjectivity
Quelle	In: Qualitative Inquiry, 18 (2012) 7, S.606-625 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-8004
DOI	10.1177/1077800412450150
Schlagwörter	Popular Culture; Females; Sororities; Gender Issues; Ethnography; Femininity; Identification (Psychology); Longitudinal Studies; Interviews; Observation; Vignettes; College Students; Social Influences; Dormitories; Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Popkultur; Weibliches Geschlecht; Frauengruppe; Geschlechterfrage; Ethnografie; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Collegestudent; Sozialer Einfluss; Student housing; Studentenwohnheim; Standard
Abstract	While multiple and competing understandings of sororities exist in popular culture, academic research on sororities tends to homogenize the experience of sorority women, simplifying their existence to a quantitative understanding of specific behaviors such as those associated with binge drinking, eating disorders, and heterosexuality. Specifically, it ignores processes of discursive discipline that converge to disseminate social expectations, maintain dominant discourse, conceal processes of social control, and limit possibilities for gendered subjectivity. Therefore, in order to provide a more complex understanding of sorority women's gendered subjectivity and to produce research cognizant of cultural discourse, this study explored sorority women's experiences through an ethnographic lens informed by poststructural theory. Represented by creative analytic practice as an ethnographic screenplay, this research provides contextualized insight into societal relationships of power and gender as they produce and reproduce specific historical and cultural regimes. In particular, I contextualize the experiences of sorority women, explore the dissemination and discipline of femininity within the sorority, and show how such discipline relates to Foucauldian theorizations. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10