Citation

Luke KP. Soc. Serv. Rev. 2009; 83(1): 79-109.

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(Copyright © 2009, University of Chicago Press)

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Abstract

Feminist scholarship on sexual violence suggests that practices of normative masculinity and femininity, identified by some poststructuralists as technologies of gender, are causally related to sexual violence. Much of that research concentrates on the gendered interactions between men and women but does not sufficiently explore the interactions among women. Through analysis of 31 qualitative interviews, this article shows that interviewed heavy‐drinking college women deploy technologies of gender in their interactions with other women and in their strategies for negotiating the risk of sexual violence. The results suggest that deconstructing technologies of gender offers new possibilities for sexual violence prevention in localized (e.g., campus) contexts.