Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug -Involved Women

Rajah, Valli

doi:10.1093/bjc/azl064

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“…It is necessary to consider whether working-class women experience sexual violence as a punishment for transgressing middle-class feminine norms. Such work would also prompt questions around different responses to sexual violations: if contexts for sexual violence differ, it is likely that this will lead to variation in reactions to and coping strategies for trauma (already signalled by domestic violence research on how working-class women are more likely to resist violent partners -see for example Rajah, 2007).…”

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Rape and Respectability: Ideas about Sexual Violence and Social Class

Phipps

2009

Sociology

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Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. The classed division between the sexual and the feminine, drawn via the notion of respectability, is applied to these issues. This piece is intended to catalyse further research and debate, and raises a number of questions for future work on sexual violence and social class.

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Rape and Respectability: Ideas about Sexual Violence and Social Class

Phipps

2009

Sociology

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“…The edgework literature to date has largely ignored J. A. Gailey (&) Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Anthropology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA e-mail: j.gailey@tcu.edu women (Miller 1991; for two exceptions see Lois 2001;Rajah 2007). This study, therefore, offers an important contribution to the larger body of work on voluntary risk-taking by showing that women can and do participate in edgework.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…She found that women do participate in edgework; however, she noted the differences in how men and women participate, specifically by focusing on their preparation and emotions during and after rescue missions. Rajah (2007) extends the edgework model by applying it to a study of oppressive intimate relationships. Rajah studies drug-using, inner city, minority women and argues that edgework represents a mode of resistance to patriarchical privilege and control.…”

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“…A comparison of Lois's (2001) and Rajah's (2007) edgeworkers indicates that social class largely predicts the type of edgework one participates in. For instance, Lois's edgeworkers are middle class men and women who engage in edgework during their leisure time as an escape from boredom.…”

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“…While it does offer a similar array of affective and visceral rewards, socially marginalized individuals must negotiate a space away from the edge as a part of their everyday lives. Therefore, while Rajah's (2007) edgeworkers voluntarily play with this boundary, through edgework, they do so as a part of the on-going negotiation of their everyday survival.…”

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The media have been focusing on websites that are ''pro-anorexic'' to illustrate the pervasiveness of eating disorders in the US. This study focuses on the narratives of women who participate in ''pro-ana'' sites using Lyng's (Am J Sociol 95:851-886, 1990) concept of edgework. Results indicate that women struggle with feelings of loss of control and through various skills are able to resume control. These data point to the intense emotive reactions fasting elicits, reactions which both reinforce and provide motivation to remain in the subculture. Findings contribute to the literature by focusing on women's edgework and demonstrating the similarities between men and women edgeworkers.

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2019

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Since its inception in the mid‐1990s, cultural criminology has focused on the cultural meanings of practices defined as “crime” and the cultural dynamics of criminalization and control in late modernity. Here, culture is understood as the symbolic space in and through which individuals and groups make sense of their being, their actions, and the social and material world. This entry examines the ways in which cultural criminology explains women's acts of crime and deviance, such as their engagement in edgework or terrorism, by offering an analysis which takes seriously agentive forces such as emotions and desires, as well as structures of power and existing patterns of inequality.

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Resistance as Edgework in Violent Intimate Relationships of Drug -Involved Women

Cited by 49 publications

References 24 publications

Rape and Respectability: Ideas about Sexual Violence and Social Class

Rape and Respectability: Ideas about Sexual Violence and Social Class

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