Horsetarts, Mullets and Slurries: Sexual Subject Positions Available to Young Women at Roseworthy College.

O'Brien, Susie

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Publication Date: 1998

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Horsetarts, Mullets and Slurries: Sexual Subject Positions Available to Young Women at Roseworthy College.

O'Brien, Susie

Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v19 n1 p89-99 Apr 1998

Seven intensive interviews with female college students at Roseworthy College, a rural agricultural college in South Australia, revealed that the college's historic rural masculine tradition and misogynist social environment restrict women to narrow sexual-subject positions: acting like a male; tutor/cleaner/mother/cook; "slut" versus "prude"; or victim of sexual abuse. Contains 46 references. (SV)

Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, College Students, Cultural Images, Females, Feminist Criticism, Foreign Countries, Fraternities, Higher Education, Interviews, Rural Schools, Rural Youth, School Culture, Sex Bias, Sex Role, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Social Attitudes, Social Environment

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Language: English

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