A bloody story? On construction of bodily gender among girls

Rudberg, Monica

doi:10.1080/08038740.1995.9959672

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“…Even in a small sample like ours, there are actually fi ve of them. Although the number is stunning, the phenomenon itself (achieving girls being anorectic) is not so surprising, given that the body, according to both gender and youth researchers, seems to have become a more important arena for identity construction in this generation (Brumberg, 1997;Rudberg, 1995). The overrepresentation of eating disorders in our sample also tells us about the abundant pressures that a young girl today is exposed to.…”

Section: Paradox Of Knowledgementioning

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Paradoxes in schooling gender — a messy story

Rudberg

2009

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The fact that girls on the average seem to do better than boys at all levels of schooling has triggered off a debate on ‘feminization of schools’ as a problem in many Western countries. In this article, a competing hypothesis is proposed, namely the ‘new girl hypothesis’, relating the academic success to the change of cultural as well as psychological positions among young girls of today. The story of schooling gender is told on the basis of data from a three-generational study of girls and their mothers and grandmothers in Norway, interviewed in 1991–92, and with a follow up for the girls ten years later. This story proves to be a rather ‘messy’ one, showing both ruptures and continuities between the generations. To understand this ‘messy story’ the article explores some paradoxes in schooling gender: Firstly, the paradoxes of pedagogy wavering between gender neutrality and gender reproduction, secondly the paradox of the welfare state wavering between individualizing policy and reproductive family orientation, and finally the paradoxes of knowledge-seeking itself, which can be seen as both gendered as well as transgressing gender boundaries.

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Paradoxes in schooling gender — a messy story

Rudberg

2009

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“…We found middle-class students here too, but the majority were working class and lower middle class. All the students were in their last year of high 1 The study has been presented earlier in a book in Norwegian (Nielsen and Rudberg 2006) and in several English articles, among others Nielsen (2003Nielsen ( , 2004, Nielsen et al (2012), Rudberg (2000, 2007), Rudberg and Nielsen (2005 and Rudberg (1995Rudberg ( , 2009. 2 As mentioned in the Acknowledgements, the PhD project was not completed.…”

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“…The more or less suspect femininity that a young middle-class girl has to avoid in order to become a modern, autonomous girl might also no longer be represented by her own mother in the way it was in the middle generation, but rather might be experienced as a more obscure, inner threat to her perceived identity. The body that is so central to modern self-construction has become a potential enemy, which they either manage to control or that lets them down by being beyond their control (Rudberg 1995). Thus, in spite of the young men taking a much more active interest in their appearance, there are only sparse signs that men and women in the youngest generation have become more similar to each other in the way they talk about and relate to their bodies.…”

Section: Gendering Bodies and Degendering Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nielsen¹

2017

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The Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is impressive and contemporary in its themes and approaches' -Professor Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK, and author of New Social Ties The remit of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is to publish major texts, monographs and edited collections focusing broadly on the sociological exploration of intimate relationships and family organization. The series covers a wide range of topics such as partnership, marriage, parenting, domestic arrangements, kinship, demographic change, intergenerational ties, life course transitions, step-families, gay and lesbian relationships, lone-parent households, and also non-familial intimate relationships such as friendships and includes works by leading figures in the field, in the UK and internationally, and aims to contribute to continue publishing influential and prize-winning research.

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“…According to the findings of this study, the representation of the female body is a reason for a shift in the 'ownership' of the body from the young women themselves to medical experts. During the years of maturing from a child to an adult, both socially and physically, a new relationship with the body has to be established by the girl-becoming-woman, and a new understanding of the meanings of having a female body is developed (Ussher 1989, Lee 1994, Lovering 1995, Prendergast 1995, Rudberg 1995. The letters to the medical advisory columns show that the young women have an interest in and respect for the medical account of bodily functions.…”

Section: Representing the Body: Normality And Controlmentioning

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Medicalisation by Whom? Accounts of Menstruation Conveyed by Young Women and Medical Experts in Medical Advisory Columns

Oinas

1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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The term medicalisation is considered in the light of an empirical study on menstruation as discussed in medical advisory columns. The focus is on how the medical profession responds to young women's questions about their maturing bodies. The questions are seldom of a medical nature; rather, they are concerned with normality and coping with menstruation in everyday life. The doctors' response is clear: the patient need not worry, the medical profession is both willing and able to take over the responsibility for, and control over, the body. The medicalisation of menstruation that can be found in advisory columns strengthens the position of the medical establishment as the legitimate authority on the body. Nevertheless, the letters sent to the magazines do not lend support to the idea of medicalisation as an endeavor pursued by the medical profession alone. The letters are also a means whereby young women try to establish standards for proper female gender behaviour in an area where lay society remains silent.

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A bloody story? On construction of bodily gender among girls

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Paradoxes in schooling gender — a messy story

Paradoxes in schooling gender — a messy story

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Medicalisation by Whom? Accounts of Menstruation Conveyed by Young Women and Medical Experts in Medical Advisory Columns

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