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Risky Pleasures? - Club Cultures and Feminine Identities (Paperback)
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Risky Pleasures? - Club Cultures and Feminine Identities (Paperback)
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In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into
women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic
account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set
within the context of the theoretical literature on youth
subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The
work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs,
dealers - and the consumers - women negotiating pleasure and risk
in club spaces and in the city at night. It explores the range of
club spaces, developing a typology of 'mainstream' and
'underground' clubs, and considers how different types of
participants are attracted to different 'scenes'. It examines
women's recreational drug-use within a club context and discusses
issues of sexuality, tolerance and the importance of 'attitude' in
terms of women's feelings of safety. Revealing the important role
of different spaces and different atmospheres in how women
participate in club scenes, Fiona Hutton argues that drug taking
and sexual pleasure are always contextualized within the
environments created in different spaces, and that the risk and
danger negotiated by women clubbers are counterbalanced by fun and
pleasure - and ultimately empowerment.
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