{"id":5632,"date":"2010-03-05T00:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2012-02-27T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T19:40:50","slug":"mixed-ethnic-girls-and-boys-as-similarly-powerless-and-powerful-embodiment-of-attractiveness-and-grotesqueness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5632","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dis.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/11\/3\/329\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dis.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Discourse Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dis.sagepub.com\/content\/vol11\/issue3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 11, Number 3<\/a> (June 2009)<br \/>\npages 329-352<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1177\/1461445609102447<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tohoku.academia.edu\/LaurelKamada\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel D. Kamada<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tohoku University, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent <em>girls<\/em> in Japan with Japanese and `white&#8217; mixed-parentage is extended to also investigate and compare <em>boys<\/em> . This study draws on Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis which views women and girls as `simultaneously positioned as relatively powerless within a range of dominant discourses on gender, but as relatively <em>powerful<\/em> within alternative and competing social discourses&#8217; (Baxter, 2003: 39). Here, this is taken further by also giving voice to <em>boys<\/em>. Furthermore, ethnic discourses are examined alongside of gender discourses. Not only girls constructed the `idealized Other&#8217;, within discourses of femininity, but boys similarly viewed their bodies against a model of idealized masculinity within discourses of masculinities. The boys revealed a feminized, narcissistic body consciousness where they struggled to resist a `discourse of foreign grotesqueness&#8217; and instead worked to embody themselves within a positive `discourse of foreign attractiveness&#8217;, as did the girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/dis.sagepub.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/11\/3\/329\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-ethnic girls and boys as similarly powerless and powerful: embodiment of attractiveness and grotesqueness Discourse Studies Volume 11, Number 3 (June 2009) pages 329-352 DOI: 10.1177\/1461445609102447 Laurel D. Kamada Tohoku University, Japan An ongoing study examining the discursive negotiation of ethnic and gendered embodied identities of adolescent girls in Japan with Japanese and `white&#8217; mixed-parentage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,394],"tags":[2365,1793,2366,9799],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-discourse-studies","tag-japan","tag-laurel-d-kamada","tag-laurel-kamada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}