Cute Boys or Game Boys? The Embodiment of Femininity and Masculinity in Young Norwegians’ Text Message Love-Projects

Cute Boys or Game Boys? The Embodiment of Femininity and Masculinity in Young Norwegians’ Text Message Love-Projects

By looking at young Norwegians’ text messages in sexual romantic negotiations, this article examines whether text messages may provide a site for performing femininity and masculinity in ways that subvert traditional conceptions of these constructs. Although various studies on gender, sexuality and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin Prøitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2005-01-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
Subjects:
mobile communications
mobile phones
gender
sexuality and media
Online Access:http://six.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-037-cute-boys-or-game-boys-the-embodiment-of-femininity-and-masculinity-in-young-norwegians%E2%80%99-text-message-love-projects/

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http://six.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-037-cute-boys-or-game-boys-the-embodiment-of-femininity-and-masculinity-in-young-norwegians%E2%80%99-text-message-love-projects/

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