Publications

Publication details [#51624]

Kamada, Laurel D. 2009. Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness. Discourse Studies 11 (3) : 329–352.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | ethnicity | gender | identity negotiation | power

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study expands ongoing research on the feminine discursive construction of ethnic and gendered embodied identities by teenage girls of mixed Japanese-White parentage in Japan, to also include and compare boys' masculine discursive 'idealized Other'-construction.