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Rousaki, A, Seymour-Smith, S 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1213-9160, Marriott, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7743-5262 and Kitson-Boyce, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9600-1830,
2025.
Parental constructions of adolescent sexting and gender: a critical discursive analysis.
Feminism and Psychology.
ISSN 0959-3535
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Abstract
Sexting is the interpersonal exchange of self-produced, sexually suggestive photographs, videos or messages via technological means (Doring, 2014). Our study explores parental constructions of adolescent sexting and gender. Using critical discursive psychology, we analyse 15 dyadic interviews with UK-based parents /carers of adolescents (N=30). Two interpretative repertoires were evidenced across the data set. The first, “Sexting consequences that demand ‘real’ awareness” functions to solidify protectionist discourses and set abstinence as the only act of “real” agency. Participants positioned gendered adolescent agency with girls as “Insta-girls” sexting for popularity; “Mean girls” sexting as power play; and boys are positioned as “The initiators and perpetrators of sexting”. The second repertoire, “Sexting as a lasting and dangerous problem” constructed sexting as problematic in terms of the likelihood that images would be non-consensually shared and explicated how adolescents were positioned regarding gender and victimhood with “Girls as victims of the patriarchal culture”. “Boys face challenges too”, constructs boys as facing challenges which obscure the nature and effects of their harassment. We discuss the findings in relation to Butler’s (1990) gender performativity theory and the socio-political discursive terrain; highlighting their ideological implications and the need for positions that prioritise youth-centric conceptualisations of sexting.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | Feminism and Psychology |
| Creators: | Rousaki, A., Seymour-Smith, S., Marriott, M. and Kitson-Boyce, R. |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Date: | 28 April 2025 |
| ISSN: | 0959-3535 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1177/09593535251324029 DOI 2416751 Other |
| Rights: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Laura Borcherds |
| Date Added: | 28 Mar 2025 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2025 16:59 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53319 |
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