To Örebro University

oru.seÖrebro University Publications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Being a Responsible Violent Girl? Exploring Female Violence, Self-management and ADHD
Umeå University.
Umeå University.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8514-8511
2018 (English)In: Girlhood Studies, ISSN 1938-8209, E-ISSN 1938-8322, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 111-126Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, we explore how young women in Sweden negotiate their gendered subject positions in relation to psychiatric diagnoses, particularly Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and the meanings of their own violent acts. The data consists of transcripts of face-to-face interviews with young women who have experienced using aggressive and violent acts. Given that the analysis is informed by ideas developed in discursive psychology, we identified the centrality of the concepts of responsibility and self-management. In this study responsibility is connected to gendered notions of passivity and activity. What we call the ordinary girl is neither too active nor too passive, and the extraordinary girl is either too active or too passive in the managing of herself. Similar to those of a troublesome past, the narratives of ADHD enable the understanding of an intelligible violent self, and therefore make female externalized violence what we describe as narrative-able.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berghahn Books, 2018. Vol. 11, no 2, p. 111-126
Keywords [en]
Aggression, Discursive psychology, Emotional regulation, Gendered subjectivities, Psychiatric diagnoses, Sweden
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-78805DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2018.110209ISI: 000438990700009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85052395821OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-78805DiVA, id: diva2:1380647
Available from: 2019-12-19 Created: 2019-12-19 Last updated: 2022-02-02Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Arnell, Linda

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Arnell, Linda
In the same journal
Girlhood Studies
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 431 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf