Aufsatz(elektronisch)9. Dezember 2015
Agency, intimacy, and rape jokes: an ethnographic study of young women and sexual risk in Chennai
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 67-83
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Abstract
In this article, I examine the circulation of jokes about sexual violence among young middle‐class women in the South Indian city of Chennai. Drawing on ethnographic research with undergraduate students in this city, I locate the rape joke in an ambivalent discourse of risk that conflates the possibility of sexual assault with the perceived 'risks' of women's sexual autonomy. In this context, I argue that humour about sexual violence functions as a form of lateral agency, facilitating a break from the task of reproducing middle‐class respectability.
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