| dc.creator |
Crowe, N |
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| dc.creator |
Watts, M |
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| dc.date |
2015-01-14T15:54:36Z |
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| dc.date |
2015-01-14T15:54:36Z |
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| dc.date |
2014-01-09 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-25T14:53:05Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-25T14:53:05Z |
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| dc.identifier |
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. |
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| dc.identifier |
0267-3843 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9755 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2013.856802 |
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| dc.identifier |
2164-4527 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/172668 |
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| 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.] |
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| dc.description |
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. |
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| dc.format |
379 - 390 |
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| dc.format |
Print-Electronic |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
Taylor and Francis |
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| dc.relation |
International Journal of Adolescence and Youth |
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| 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.] |
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| dc.rights |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
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| dc.subject |
Pro-Ana |
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| dc.subject |
Pro-Mia |
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| dc.subject |
online transgression |
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| dc.subject |
adolescent voice |
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| dc.title |
‘We're just like Gok, but in reverse’: Ana Girls – empowerment and resistance in digital communities |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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