The Thin Line Between Protection, Care and Control:

Mørck, Yvonne; Sørensen, Bo Wagner; Danneskiold-Samsøe, Sofie; Højberg, Henriette

doi:10.2307/j.ctvbkjw5t.21

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“…Honkatukia, 1999; Lees, 1997), but in recent years a division has emerged between research that examines, on one hand, the effects of sexual norms on racialized minority women and girls (e.g. Mørck et al., 2011; Schlytter et al., 2008; Wikan, 2002) and, on the other hand, the effects of new technologies and social media on the sexualization and sexual harassment on young women’s lives (e.g. Crofts et al., 2015; Rentchler, 2014).…”

Section: Sexualized Female Bodies and Shaming In Multiethnic Peer Relmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, in research, the phenomenon of social control is often envisioned as an elementary feature of culturalized forms of violence, such as honor-related violence or forced marriages (e.g. Mørck et al., 2011: 282–284; Schlytter et al., 2008; Wikan, 2002). In such views, social control is exercised by families and upheld by cultural norms shared by minority communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The social control of young women’s clothing and bodies: A perspective of differences on racialization and sexualization

Honkatukia

Keskinen²

2017

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Public discourses and culturalist research often present patriarchal social control as the key element of minority youth's family relations. They focus on conflicts related to young women's sexual reputation when discussing Muslims and non-western minorities. Social control is often connected to honor-related violence and applied to assumptions of how young women are oppressed by their family members. In this article, we problematize such a connection and approach social control as a broad phenomenon that shapes social life and is exercised by several actors. The article elaborates a perspective of differences on social control, building on feminist theories of intersectionality and distinguishing between different dimensions of social control (formal/informal, public/private). This theoretical framework is then applied to the empirical analysis of different elements of social control related to young women's clothing and bodies. It is argued that the framework enables examination of the multifaceted dynamics of gendered, racialized and age-related social control without falling into the trap of culturalist knowledge production.

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Section: Sexualized Female Bodies and Shaming In Multiethnic Peer Relmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%