Paper Title
Sluts and Riot Grrrls: Female Identity and Sexual Agency
Keywords
- slut
- sexuality
- representation
- main stream
- sub-culture
- feminism
- female identity
- sexual agency
- riot grrrl
- gender politics
- cultural identity
- media portrayal
- feminist discourse
- sexual expression
- empowered women
- popular culture
- slut representation
- female sexuality
- subcultural identity
- mainstream feminism
- riot grrrl culture
- feminist sexual agency
- slut shaming
- sexual empowerment
- gendered language
- cultural feminism
- new media feminism
- sexual identity
- feminist resistance
- sexual politics
Article Type
Original Article
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 16 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 233–247
Published On
September, 2007
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Abstract
This article examines the history of the term ‘slut’ and the articulation of different meanings around it. It traces some of the ways in which the term has been appropriated in various popular culture and new media texts and within subcultural practices and performances. It asks what this reveals not only about the way words are used to define women sexually, but about the way women engage with a culture that frequently reduces them to their sexual value whilst ignoring their sexuality. It argues that this kind of examination can also be a starting point for asking what is at stake in struggles between women, whether this takes the form of struggles over class, generation, aesthetics or politics.
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