‘The guys in there just expect to be laid’: embodied and gendered socio-spatial practices of a ‘night out’ in Wollongong, Australia

Waitt, Gordon R; Jessop, Loretta; Gorman‐Murray, Andrew

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2010.551651

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“…My research was undertaken overtly, in which my research intentions were explained to participants prior to, and during, their involvement in the project. I informed all potential participants about the research in an accessible information sheet, and gave them two weeks 'thinking time' before deciding whether, or not, they wished to participate in the research project (Waitt, Jessop, & Gorman-Murray, 2011). For those under 16 years of age, alongside gaining assent from the young person, I also gained consent from parent(s) (Valentine, 1999).…”

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Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Wilkinson

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Wilkinson

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…In this article we build on post-structural feminist geographers to conceive of gendered bodies and space as co-constituted within alcohol-fused assemblages (Jayne et al 2010;Waitt et al 2011;Tan 2013). In order to do this we turn to the Deleuzian-inspired writing of post-humanist feminist scholars including Probyn (2005) and Grosz (1994) whose work suggests the need for an account of alcohol and drinking more alert to bodies and spaces as composite rather than bounded entities.…”

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Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

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Clement

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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Gender is a key lens for interpreting meanings and practices of drinking. In response to the overwhelming amount of social and medical alcohol studies that focus on what extent people conform to norms of healthy drinking, this article extends critical feminist geographical engagement with assemblage thinking to explore how the technologies of biopower covertly materialised as bodily habits may be preserved and challenged. We suggest an embodied engagement with alcohol to help think through the gendered practices and spatial imaginaries of rural drinking life. Our account draws on interviews with women of different cohort generations with Anglo-Celtic ancestry living in a country town in Victoria, Australia. Three vignettes based around emergent themes of maternal, domicile and socialising bodies help shed light on the contradictory ways gender is lived through the dynamics of alcohol consumption which help constitute everyday life in a country town.

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“…Furthermore, engagement with debates about urban illumination (Edensor, 2012) and requests for consideration of a broader range of actors in the night (Eldridge and Roberts, 2013) indicate a desire for a continued evolution in our understanding of urban nights. Still, social scientists have so far only begun to touch upon the ways in which experience of the urban night is differentiated by gender (Waitt et al, 2011), religion , race (Talbot, 2004) and other segmentations. We have also failed to integrate studies of sexuality with the urban night, despite some of the obvious connections (Hubbard, 2005).…”

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“…There are relatively few studies which into the alcohol and leisure industry at night which have begun to move beyond a focus on regulation and the city centre (Hubbard, 2005). The areas of study that have seen most 'cross-over' research in relation to the alcohol and leisure industry at night have been sexuality (Waitt et al, 2011) and drugs (Hubbard, 2005;Jackson, 2004;Measham and Moore, 2009). What is notable here is that these papers broaden study with a focus on 'practices', which begins to move the discussion of urban nights into new areas (for an example of an alcohol-oriented paper which does focus on practice, see Jayne et.…”

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Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

Shaw

2014

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‘The guys in there just expect to be laid’: embodied and gendered socio-spatial practices of a ‘night out’ in Wollongong, Australia

Cited by 92 publications

References 21 publications

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Drinking in the dark: shedding light on young people’s alcohol consumption experiences

Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Beyond night-time economy: Affective atmospheres of the urban night

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