Homophobic Violence and the Self 'At Risk': Interrogating the Boundaries

Stanko, Elizabeth A.; Curry, P. V. L.

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“…However, the research to date does suggests that visibility is an incitement to attack: looking like a lesbian was seen as signi cant provocation for previous attacks on focus group members. Regardless of statistics, the fear of homophobic violence itself acts as a form of governance (Stanko and Curry, 1997). The existence of a marked gay space may provide some measure of protection but it can never be guaranteed.…”

Section: Safe Spatialized Visibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Citizenship, as the term which evokes public obligation and responsibility, was as Pateman (1988) and Berlant (1997) have shown, a malleable discourse of woman-exclusion. Citizenship discourse now promotes the virtues of selfregulation and self-policing (Stanko, 1997), making sure that any claims on space will be mediated through the desire for respectability and safety.…”

Section: Safe Spatialized Visibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Discourses of respectability are central to how women feel able to occupy space, hence the move towards the suburbs for families (Chaney, 1977). The legal reprimands used against women who move out of 'safer-space' exist to remind them of their own 'negligence', their 'irresponsibility' for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, rather than being the responsibility of the men who attack them (see Stanko, 1997). Similarly, most lesbians and gay men learn that most space is heterosexual and they have to develop strategies and tactics for negotiating this unremitting normalization when moving through and occupying space.…”

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Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces

Skeggs¹

1999

Leisure Studies

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This paper draws on longitudinal ethnographic research conducted between 1981 and 1992 with white working class women (published as Formations of Class and Gender, Skeggs, 1997) and preliminary research begun in 1997 (with Les Moran and Carole Truman), later funded by the Economic and Social Research Council entitled Violence, Sexuality and Space, which compares the use of space by three different groups: gay men, lesbians and straight women in two different cities. Both these projects have Manchester's 'gay village' as a context, enabling exploration of the signi cance of homosexualized leisure space for understanding how identities become spatialized and how political claims are made and not made. The paper analyses the contrasts between a group of white working class women whose identity is based on dis-identi cation, dissimulation, mis-recognition and a desire for invisibility, and group of lesbians who form their identity through visibility, recognition and territorialization. The comparison between how different groups use leisure space begins an investigation into an empirical understanding of the relationship between leisure space, sexuality, identity and legitimation. The paper explores the consequences of these different processes for 'the politics of recognition'. It puts together a range of cross-disciplinary work, from feminist theory, political theory, cultural studies, cultural geography, sociology, leisure studies and queer theory. FrameworkAn understanding of entry and restrictions on space is absolutely central to understanding how and why certain places can and cannot be used for leisure (see Mowl and Towner, 1994;Deem, 1996a;Scraton and Watson, 1998). The paper builds upon the foundational work on women and leisure (Deem, 1986;Green et al., 1990) aimed at understanding how sexuality intersects with gender in speci c spaces, asking what are the political consequences of this gender/sexuality matrix. As Scraton and Watson (1998, p. 123) argue:The challenge for leisure studies is to complement its already multidisciplinary base by drawing on work that opens up the complexities of space, not merely in the recognition of 'new' lifestyles and the conspicuous consumption of leisure but also, as a site for the maintenance and reproduction of complex power relations.It also speaks to debates in lesbian/gay theory and queer theory which have begun to map out the signi cance of certain spaces to the development and maintenance of visible communities: such as Mapping Desire (Bell and Leisure Studies 18 (1999) 213-232 0261-4367

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1999

Leisure Studies

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“…This perspective reflects a growing body of work that critiques individualising and psychologising approaches to bullying research and which instead advocate a sociological approach (Pascoe, 2013;Payne and Smith, 2013). Stanko and Curry (1997) have suggested that highlighting violence or discrimination can be an activist strategy to try and seek change, exemplified in much of Stonewall's 4 published research on homophobic bullying. As a result, it has been argued (McCormack, 2012) that anti-bullying campaigns can increase young people's fears about coming out (though it could also be argued that anti-bullying campaigns engender greater visibility and/or support, which facilitates young people's coming out).…”

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Limitations of focussing on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic ‘bullying’ to understand and address LGBT young people's experiences within and beyond school

Formby

2015

Sex Education

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This paper presents new empirical data that highlights how a focus on 'bullying' is too limited and narrow when thinking about homophobia, biphobia and transphobia that young people may experience. The paper draws on two recent studies with young lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans participants, which each identified issues and experiences not readily captured within dominant bullying discourses and understandings. Findings are examined within three sections: beyond 'bullying', questioning inevitability, and (in)appropriate responses. In conclusion, I set out some implications and suggestions for the development of practice and future research concerning homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in youth settings.

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“…Gay, under the threat of straight invasion, takes the form of a territorial claim that is also a claim of sexual identity both individual and collective (see Castells, 1983;Adler and Brenner, 1992 ). More specifically it takes the form of identity threatened with erasure: the self 'at risk' (Stanko and Curry, 1997 ). Control and loss of control, boundary maintenance and boundary violations infuse the talk of spaces ('private space' and 'our space') and places (the gay bar, women's toilets and 'the Village').…”

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The property of safety

Moran¹,

Skeggs²

2001

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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This article draws upon data generated as part of a 30-month research project, 'Violence Sexuality, Space', undertaken as part of a wider Economic and Social Research Council initiative on Violence. The main focus of the article is upon ideas of property that are a recurring theme in our Manchester key informant data. We offer a jurisprudence of the everyday practices of property through an examination of the ways in which ideas of property are implicated in the production of experiences of security and insecurity, safety and danger, identity and community, as social inclusion and social exclusion. This analysis is grounded in an empirical study of the sexual social order of Manchester's gay Village.

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Homophobic Violence and the Self 'At Risk': Interrogating the Boundaries

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces

Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces

Limitations of focussing on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic ‘bullying’ to understand and address LGBT young people's experiences within and beyond school

The property of safety

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