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dc.contributor.author | Crowe, N | - |
dc.contributor.author | Watts, M | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-14T15:54:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-14T15:54:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014-01-09 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nic Crowe & Mike Watts (2016) ‘We're just like Gok, but in reverse’: Ana Girls – empowerment and resistance in digital communities, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 21 (3), pp. 379 - 390, doi: 10.1080/02673843.2013.856802. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0267-3843 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9755 | - |
dc.description | International Journal of Adolescence and Youth is a peer-reviewed open access journal. [Note from DOAJ (https://doaj.org/toc/2164-4527) - This journal began publishing in open access in 2014. This journal uses a CC BY or a CC BY-NC license.] | - |
dc.description.abstract | Copyright © 2013 Taylor & Francis. ‘Pro-Ana’ Internet sites can foster or celebrate anorexia and bulimia nervosa in young women. Clinical discourse portrays anorexia as a problematic and deviant ‘condition’, while Pro-Ana/-Mia spaces offer an arena that appeals to control over how bodies are represented. We draw on data from a seven-year ethnographic study of young people’s online worlds, from forums, postings on Pro-Ana sites and online interviews with Pro-Ana users, to illustrate and illuminate young women’s perspectives and the extent to which this transgressive movement strives for voice. We argue that ‘being’ Pro-Ana offers ‘practitioners’ liberation from cultural critiques of the body. The websites suggest that famously thin women, whose ‘beauty’ has already been culturally validated, have overcome similar problems to Pro-Ana readers, and offer a re-formulation of cultural identities to provide legitimate (and validated) means to reach this ‘perfection’. In this respect, they represent important sites of agency and resistance. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 379 - 390 | - |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2013 Taylor & Francis. [Note from DOAJ (https://doaj.org/toc/2164-4527) - This journal began publishing in open access in 2014. This journal uses a CC BY or a CC BY-NC license.] | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | - |
dc.subject | Pro-Ana | en_US |
dc.subject | Pro-Mia | en_US |
dc.subject | online transgression | en_US |
dc.subject | adolescent voice | en_US |
dc.title | ‘We're just like Gok, but in reverse’: Ana Girls – empowerment and resistance in digital communities | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2013.856802 | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | International Journal of Adolescence and Youth | - |
pubs.issue | 3 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
pubs.volume | 21 | - |
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dc.identifier.eissn | 2164-4527 | - |
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