Abstract

North American feminist scholarship on violence against women (VAW) focuses primarily on gendered-based violence and does not substantively incorporate intersectionality. In this paper, I offer a comparative analysis of Canadian Indigenous and White middle-class adolescent girls’ narratives of toxic masculinity, rape culture and sexual violence. I use VAW research, Indigenous feminist theory and girlhood studies to focus on the following: (1) the ‘boys will be boys’ discourse, (2) the feminist critique of the stranger danger discourse and (3) the surveillance of girls. I analyze focus group data with girls (aged 13–19 years). I am interested in how girls both accept and resist the status quo in their day-to-day negotiations with family, peers, schools and public spaces.

摘要

北美女权主义关于暴力侵害妇女行为（VAW）的学术研究主要关注基于性别的暴力，并没有实质性地纳入交叉性。在本文中，我对加拿大土著和白人中产阶级少女的有毒男性气质、强奸文化和性暴力的叙述进行了比较分析。我利用暴力侵害妇女行为研究、土著女权主义理论和少女时代研究来重点关注以下内容：（1）“男孩将是男孩”话语，（2）女权主义对陌生人危险话语的批评以及（3）对女孩的监视。我分析了女孩（13-19 岁）的焦点小组数据。我感兴趣的是女孩在与家庭、同龄人、学校和公共场所的日常谈判中如何接受和抵制现状。