Abstract
This chapter traces the appearance of the body as it has manifest in feminist studies of young women. In particular, the discussion focuses on a shift in emphasis away from young women as passive victims of various forms of cultural determinism to approaches which seek to complicate the relationship of gendered bodies and regimes of signification. These approaches have often radically reconceptualized the role of the body in young women’s practice of self-identity and the social processes which contribute to young women’s subjectivation by emphasizing the active and processual nature of the self-body relation. Such approaches challenge many key aspects of earlier feminist analyses and critiques. Debates concerning the impact of this reconceptualization are assessed, and implications for the study of young femininities are discussed. S. Budgeon (*) School of Government and Society, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK e-mail: s.budgeon@bham.ac.uk This chapter: # Crown Copyright 2015 Published by Springer Science+Business Media Singapore. All rights reserved. J. Wyn, H. Cahill (eds.), Handbook of Children and Youth Studies, DOI 10.1007/978-981-4451-15-4_2 243
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