language that frames this topic constitutes, in itself, a point of ethical questioning. Current research has tended to portray the phenomenon of sexual exploitation of girls as being one-dimensional, focused mainly on their experiences of victimization
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Narratives of Ambivalence
The Ethics of Vulnerability and Agency in Research with Girls in the Sex Trade
Alexandra Ricard-Guay and Myriam Denov
Who Is a Victim of Communism?
Gender and Public Memory in the Sighet Museum, Romania
Alina Haliliuc
The Memorial Museum of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance is the main museum of communism in Romania. This article a ends to this museum's politics of representing gender and argues that its exhibits reify resistance to and victimization by the communist regime as masculine. The museum marginalizes women, in general, and renders unmemorable women's lives under Nicolae Ceauşescu's pronatalist regime, in particular. The absence is significant because Romania is the only country in the former communist bloc where women experienced unique forms of systematic political victimization under Ceauşescu's nationalist-socialist politics of forced birth. This article illustrates how the museum's investment in an anti-communist discourse creates a gendered representation of political action under the communist regime.
Katherine Clonan-Roy
In 1988, Michelle Fine explored the ways in which damaging patriarchal discourses about sexuality affect adolescent girls, and hinder their development of sexual desire, subjectivities, and responsibility. In this article, I emphasize the durability and pliability of those discourses three decades later. While they have endured, they shift depending on context and the intersections of girls’ race, class, and gender identities. Calling on ethnographic research, I analyze the intersectional nuances in these sexual lessons for Latina girls in one (New) Latinx Diaspora town.
Gilad Margalit
This article discusses a screenplay of the television thriller Armer
Nanosh (Poor Nanosh), written in 19891 by the famous German
author Martin Walser and Asta Scheib.2 The screenplay deals with
the relations between Germans and Germany’s Sinti, or Gypsy, population
in the shadow of Auschwitz,3 a subject that has hardly been
touched upon by postwar German authors and dramatists.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2002
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 15–40
Lolita Speaks
Disrupting Nabokov’s “Aesthetic Bliss”
Michele Meek
and translated into English in 1999); and Emily Prager’s Roger Fishbite (1999) . I argue that these texts emphasize an ethical reading of Lolita by drawing attention to the girl’s victimization while, nonetheless, retaining notable ambiguities that
A Totem and a Taboo
Germans and Jews Re-enacting Aspects of the Holocaust
Jeremy Schonfield
were transformed into an out-group, unified like victims by the pain of both the ‘crime’ and the ‘punishment’. The younger Germans may even have contributed to this victimization, for they desired an emotional link with older Germans whose silence they
Dustin William Louie
. “ Safe Streets for Whom? Homeless Youth, Social Exclusion, and Criminal Victimization .” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 46 ( 4 ): 423 – 456 . doi:10.3138/cjccj.46.4.423 . 10.3138/cjccj.46.4.423 Gottfredson , Gary D . 2013
Black October
Comics, Memory, and Cultural Representations of 17 October 1961
Claire Gorrara
focus away from a narrative of police brutality and Algerian victimization towards a narrative of legitimate protest and Algerian political agency. Ultimately, Octobre noir exemplifies the value of the comic book as a cultural vector of memory
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 128–147
Alison Fyfe
Early twenty-first century North American journalists often claim that social changes such as women's liberation and civil rights have had a dark side for girls. For supposedly abandoning the safety of their traditional role in the home, girls are disproportionately characterized as being at risk of victimization, while also being increasingly cast as risks to themselves and others. Using mixed-methods content analysis, this article demonstrates that the social construct of risky girls crystallized for Toronto news after the 1997 murder of Reena Virk in British Columbia through a raced, classed, and gendered moral panic over bad girls. Discourses changed from talk of youth violence before the murder to talk of risky girls after it. By conflating victimization with offending, risky girl discourses prioritize risk management over needs. This conflation results in the increased policing and incarceration of girls and youth of color, ultimately reinforcing social inequalities like racism and patriarchy.
Rwandan Women No More
Female Génocidaires in the Aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Erin Jessee
Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the current government has arrested approximately 130,000 civilians who were suspected of criminal responsibility. An estimated 2,000 were women, a cohort that remains rarely researched through an ethnographic lens. This article begins to address this oversight by analyzing ethnographic encounters with 8 confessed or convicted female génocidaires from around Rwanda. These encounters reveal that female génocidaires believe they endure gender-based discrimination for having violated taboos that determine appropriate conduct for Rwandan women. However, only female génocidaires with minimal education, wealth, and social capital referenced this gender-based discrimination to minimize their crimes and assert claims of victimization. Conversely, female elites who helped incite the genocide framed their victimization in terms of political betrayal and victor’s justice. This difference is likely informed by the female elites’ participation in the political processes that made the genocide possible, as well as historical precedence for leniency where female elites are concerned.
