Att göra det avvikande normalt eller Att göra den missbrukande kvinnan till kvinna
(2002)Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- My purpose in this essay is to show how the staff in an institution for young women with a drug addiction, are looking at themselves as "normal" and the young women as "abnormal", and to analyse how sex and gender are made, in interaction with sexuality and class.
The essay is based on interviews and a participating observation. The study is made on a compulsory institutional care institution for young women with a drug addict. To analyse the material I use theories by Beverly Skeggs and Judith Butler.
In the study I show that the staff in the institution define themselves as "normal" and intend to act as models for the clients, which are described as "abnormal" in terms of being destructive, boundless and sexual. In making class and... (More) - My purpose in this essay is to show how the staff in an institution for young women with a drug addiction, are looking at themselves as "normal" and the young women as "abnormal", and to analyse how sex and gender are made, in interaction with sexuality and class.
The essay is based on interviews and a participating observation. The study is made on a compulsory institutional care institution for young women with a drug addict. To analyse the material I use theories by Beverly Skeggs and Judith Butler.
In the study I show that the staff in the institution define themselves as "normal" and intend to act as models for the clients, which are described as "abnormal" in terms of being destructive, boundless and sexual. In making class and gender the staffs efforts to make clients learn domestic values and to make their bodies feminine are shown to be central processes. Sexuality is by the staff seen as something happening only between men and women, and defining relations between men and women as always sexual creates gender.
A central tension that I show in the essay is that between normal and abnormal, both in relation to differences between the staff and the clients and in relation to the staffs roles as both models of normal life and of violent and violating keeps of order. In the environment of the compulsory care institution gender is also shown to be created in compulsory actions performed by a specific sex. In a way the care thus reproduce the "abnormal" because it as based on a difference between the staff and the clients, defined as "normal" and "abnormal". (Less)
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- author
- Mattsson, Tina
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2002
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- missbruk, unga kvinnor, genus, sexualitet, klasstillhörighet, socialt arbete, socialvård, Gender studies, Genusvetenskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1333677
- date added to LUP
- 2002-01-19 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-05-13 00:00:00
@misc{1333677,
abstract = {{My purpose in this essay is to show how the staff in an institution for young women with a drug addiction, are looking at themselves as "normal" and the young women as "abnormal", and to analyse how sex and gender are made, in interaction with sexuality and class.
The essay is based on interviews and a participating observation. The study is made on a compulsory institutional care institution for young women with a drug addict. To analyse the material I use theories by Beverly Skeggs and Judith Butler.
In the study I show that the staff in the institution define themselves as "normal" and intend to act as models for the clients, which are described as "abnormal" in terms of being destructive, boundless and sexual. In making class and gender the staffs efforts to make clients learn domestic values and to make their bodies feminine are shown to be central processes. Sexuality is by the staff seen as something happening only between men and women, and defining relations between men and women as always sexual creates gender.
A central tension that I show in the essay is that between normal and abnormal, both in relation to differences between the staff and the clients and in relation to the staffs roles as both models of normal life and of violent and violating keeps of order. In the environment of the compulsory care institution gender is also shown to be created in compulsory actions performed by a specific sex. In a way the care thus reproduce the "abnormal" because it as based on a difference between the staff and the clients, defined as "normal" and "abnormal".}},
author = {{Mattsson, Tina}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Att göra det avvikande normalt eller Att göra den missbrukande kvinnan till kvinna}},
year = {{2002}},
}