ABSTRACT

The social construction of gender and sexuality is compounded by neoliberalist, individualistic and competitive notions of choice and empowerment. This study draws on small friendship group interviews with 106 self-selecting young people, aged 12–16, in three schools in Aotearoa New Zealand. Young women live their digital sexual lives in a context characterized by feelings of powerlessness. This sense of powerlessness was somewhat reduced through making connections. Responding to other women’s non-consensually shared images with horizontal hostility is one manifestation. Doing so allowed girls to understand what is sexually permissible, as well as maintaining their friendships through connection. Similar to creating and consensually sharing intimate images as a means of making sexual relationships, this process of othering victims to conserve friendships reproduces existing inequalities.

摘要

新自由主义、个人主义和竞争性的选择和赋权概念加剧了性别和性的社会建构。这项研究利用了对新西兰奥特罗阿三所学校的 106 名 12 至 16 岁的自我选择年轻人的小型友谊小组访谈。年轻女性在以无力感为特征的环境中过着数字性生活。通过建立联系，这种无力感有所减轻。以横向敌意回应其他女性未经同意分享的图像是一种表现。这样做可以让女孩们了解什么是允许的性行为，并通过联系来维持她们的友谊。类似于创造和自愿分享亲密图像作为建立性关系的一种手段，