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Author_Fiona Hutton
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club
Club Cultures
Club Scenes
Club Spaces
clubbers
Contemporary Society
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female
Female Clubbers
Female Dealers
Female Dj
Female Drug Dealer
female empowerment studies
Feminist Standpoint Methodologies
gendered nightlife
Intense High
Invisible Woman
Mainstream Clubs
Male Dealer
Night Time Economy
Official Dress Codes
Post-subcultural Debate
Powerful Dealers
qualitative ethnography
recreational drug use
Recreational Drug Users
Underground Club
Underground Club Spaces
urban sociology
Vice Versa
women
Women Clubbers
women's experiences in club culture
Young Men
Young Women Clubbers
youth subcultures
Product details
- ISBN 9780754644248
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Fiona Hutton is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Institute of Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
