eprintid: 1471663
rev_number: 21
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datestamp: 2015-11-19 12:37:28
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type: article
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creators_name: Maxwell, C
creators_name: Aggleton, P
title: Bodies and Agentic Practice in Young Women's Sexual and Intimate Relationships
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
keywords: agency, power, sex, the body, young women
note: Copyright © 2012 by BSA Publications Ltd.  This manuscript version is made available under the terms of the SAGE Open Access Archiving Policy (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-green-route-%E2%80%93-open-access-archiving-policy).
abstract: This article contributes to theorizations of agency through a focus on how understandings of power within young women’s sexual and intimate relationships connect with their descriptions of feeling, reacting and sensuous bodies, to suggest why and how agentic practice takes place. Drawing on the narratives of 54 young women aged 16–18 years in one secondary school in England, findings concur with other literature which suggests that sensations experienced on or within the body can instigate (agentic) practice. Significantly, however, both physical and verbal practices are drawn on during agentic moments. Young women who discursively position themselves as ‘powerful’ integrate their bodies within such an understanding, using this integration to shore up the possibilities for agentic practice. Moving away from an understanding of practice as ‘accommodating’ and/or ‘resisting’ norms and inequalities, this article identifies four strategies described by the young women (assertive, refusing, proactive and interrogative) for facilitating more sustained agency.
date: 2012-04
date_type: published
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038511419192
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1058129
doi: 10.1177/0038038511419192
lyricists_name: Maxwell, Claire
lyricists_id: CMAXW74
actors_name: Maxwell, Claire
actors_id: CMAXW74
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sociology
volume: 46
number: 2
pagerange: 306-321
issn: 1469-8684
citation:        Maxwell, C;    Aggleton, P;      (2012)    Bodies and Agentic Practice in Young Women's Sexual and Intimate Relationships.                   Sociology , 46  (2)   pp. 306-321.    10.1177/0038038511419192 <https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038511419192>.       Green open access   
 
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