Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth
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Resumo: | In this article, I explore the ways in which friendship contributes to shaping the boundaries of men's and women's sexual experiences. Using inputs from the sociology of experience and the sociology of friendship, I explore qualitative data from a research about sexuality in Portugal, in which I collected sexual biographies of 35 men and women, aged 30-55. In the in-depth interviews, these adult participants, possessing secondary and tertiary education, and living in urban areas, reflected retrospectively about their sexual biography, including their childhood and youth. The main thesis is that the practices of friendship (which structure those relationships as social facts) also help to structure sexual practices and representations and, through them, to construct the contemporary sexual self. Those practices may be discursive ('talking' and 'chatting'), or rather oriented to action ('doing things together'). In this article, I focus on discursive friendship practices, and how they contribute to shaping contemporary sexual experience. Drawing on F. Dubet's sociology of experience, I argue that this relationship is defined in the tension along three dimensions: integration, strategy and subjectivation. This process is cross-cut by gender, as discursive friendship practices interact differently with the dimensions of sexual experience, in that strategy mainly reinforces definitions and enactment of hegemonic forms of masculinity, while subjectivation helps to challenge them and to build plural gender experiences (both feminine and masculine). |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During YouthFriendshipFriendship PracticesGenderSexual ExperienceSexual SelfYouthIn this article, I explore the ways in which friendship contributes to shaping the boundaries of men's and women's sexual experiences. Using inputs from the sociology of experience and the sociology of friendship, I explore qualitative data from a research about sexuality in Portugal, in which I collected sexual biographies of 35 men and women, aged 30-55. In the in-depth interviews, these adult participants, possessing secondary and tertiary education, and living in urban areas, reflected retrospectively about their sexual biography, including their childhood and youth. The main thesis is that the practices of friendship (which structure those relationships as social facts) also help to structure sexual practices and representations and, through them, to construct the contemporary sexual self. Those practices may be discursive ('talking' and 'chatting'), or rather oriented to action ('doing things together'). In this article, I focus on discursive friendship practices, and how they contribute to shaping contemporary sexual experience. Drawing on F. Dubet's sociology of experience, I argue that this relationship is defined in the tension along three dimensions: integration, strategy and subjectivation. This process is cross-cut by gender, as discursive friendship practices interact differently with the dimensions of sexual experience, in that strategy mainly reinforces definitions and enactment of hegemonic forms of masculinity, while subjectivation helps to challenge them and to build plural gender experiences (both feminine and masculine).SAGE PublicationsBritish Sociological AssociationRepositório da Universidade de LisboaPolicarpo, Verónica2017-06-14T09:29:46Z2017-05-312017-05-31T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/28079engAccepted version of: Policarpo, Verónica (2017) Friendship, gender and sexual experience: retrospective narratives about the formation of a sexual self during youth. Sociological Research Online, 22 (2), 8 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/22/2/8.html DOI: 10.5153/sro.42841360-780410.5153/sro.4284info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:19:23Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/28079Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:44:18.210163Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth Policarpo, Verónica Friendship Friendship Practices Gender Sexual Experience Sexual Self Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Friendship, Gender and Sexual Experience: Retrospective Narratives About the Formation of a Sexual Self During Youth |
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Policarpo, Verónica |
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Policarpo, Verónica |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Policarpo, Verónica |
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Friendship Friendship Practices Gender Sexual Experience Sexual Self Youth |
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Friendship Friendship Practices Gender Sexual Experience Sexual Self Youth |
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In this article, I explore the ways in which friendship contributes to shaping the boundaries of men's and women's sexual experiences. Using inputs from the sociology of experience and the sociology of friendship, I explore qualitative data from a research about sexuality in Portugal, in which I collected sexual biographies of 35 men and women, aged 30-55. In the in-depth interviews, these adult participants, possessing secondary and tertiary education, and living in urban areas, reflected retrospectively about their sexual biography, including their childhood and youth. The main thesis is that the practices of friendship (which structure those relationships as social facts) also help to structure sexual practices and representations and, through them, to construct the contemporary sexual self. Those practices may be discursive ('talking' and 'chatting'), or rather oriented to action ('doing things together'). In this article, I focus on discursive friendship practices, and how they contribute to shaping contemporary sexual experience. Drawing on F. Dubet's sociology of experience, I argue that this relationship is defined in the tension along three dimensions: integration, strategy and subjectivation. This process is cross-cut by gender, as discursive friendship practices interact differently with the dimensions of sexual experience, in that strategy mainly reinforces definitions and enactment of hegemonic forms of masculinity, while subjectivation helps to challenge them and to build plural gender experiences (both feminine and masculine). |
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Accepted version of: Policarpo, Verónica (2017) Friendship, gender and sexual experience: retrospective narratives about the formation of a sexual self during youth. Sociological Research Online, 22 (2), 8 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/22/2/8.html DOI: 10.5153/sro.4284 1360-7804 10.5153/sro.4284 |
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