“It’s the Time You Got to Wear Whatever You Wanted”: Pre-Teen Girls Negotiating Gender, Sexuality and Age through Fashion

IF 0.7 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Julie Blanchard-Emmerson
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Abstract Worries about the marketing of fashion to pre-teen girls and the power of fashionable clothes to sexualize these girls, have been on-going for some time. However, there is little research with this age group of girls that explicitly explores the ways in which fashionable clothes are understood and worn by the girls themselves and the impact on their sense of identity. Yet girls are increasingly considered in childhood sociology to be competent social actors able to articulate something of their own interactions and understanding of their social worlds. This study uses focus groups, participant photography and interviews with 32 predominately white, middle-class girls from the South of England, to examine pre-teen girls’ fashion practices to address this gap in knowledge. This article argues that young girls are active and thoughtful in their consumption of dress, aware of the construction of gender norms in responding to aged sexual expectations as they decide what to wear. In considering the context of their constructions of aged, gendered and (a)sexualized identity, girls code-switched between identity forms, actively constituting their subjectivity through clothing.
“现在是你想穿什么就穿什么的时候了”:青春期前的女孩通过时尚来协商性别、性取向和年龄
关于时尚营销对青春期前女孩的影响以及时尚服装对这些女孩性感化的影响的担忧已经持续了一段时间。然而,很少有针对这个年龄段的女孩的研究明确地探讨了女孩自己对时尚服装的理解和穿着方式,以及对她们认同感的影响。然而,在儿童社会学中,女孩越来越被认为是有能力的社会行动者,能够阐明她们自己的互动和对社会世界的理解。本研究采用焦点小组、参与者摄影和对32名来自英格兰南部的白人中产阶级女孩的采访,来研究青春期前女孩的时尚行为,以解决这一知识差距。这篇文章认为,年轻女孩在服装消费方面是积极和深思熟虑的,在决定穿什么时,她们意识到性别规范的构建是对年龄的性期望的回应。考虑到她们对年龄、性别和(a)性别化身份的建构背景,女孩在身份形式之间进行了代码转换,通过服装积极地构成了她们的主体性。
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2.20
自引率
9.10%
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14
期刊介绍: Fashion Practice fills this major gap by providing a much-needed forum for topics ranging from design theory to the impact of technology, economics and industry on fashion practice. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, Fashion Practice addresses the entire business of fashion, including: innovation in fashion design and practice sustainability and ethics within the industry micro- and nano-technologies within the fashion context “smart” textiles and digital fashion materials, design, concepts and process fashion consumption and production from retail/e-tail to performance fashion new developments in fashion and clothing retail.
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