Maddy Coy

Bio: Maddy Coy is an academic researcher from London Metropolitan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Sexual violence. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 24 publications receiving 594 citations. Previous affiliations of Maddy Coy include University of Florida.

Milkshakes, lady lumps and growing up to want boobies: how the sexualisation of popular culture limits girls' horizons

Abstract: This article explores research evidence on the harmful impact of sexualised popular culture on girls and young women, and draws implications for the Every Child Matters (ECM) framework (Department for Education and Skills, 2004). The key theme is how sexualisation narrows girls' ‘space for action’, their aspirations and achievements by re-defining femininity and beauty as of most importance, but also the negative impact on sexual relationships and interactions, with a specific focus on portrayal of black girls and young women in terms of the intersection of race and gender. Recommendations are made for a gendered analysis of sexualisation to be incorporated into ECM indicators and relevant policy measures. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Young Women, Local Authority Care and Selling Sex: Findings from Research

Abstract: Summary Researchers, practitioners and policy makers have noted the disproportionate number of young women with backgrounds of local authority care who are involved in commercial sex. However, the lack of knowledge about why this occurs means that there is little evidence with which to develop interventions. This article describes research that explored young women’s routes into the sex industry from local authority care using a feminist participatory action approach. The women’s life-story narratives demonstrate that the psycho-social legacies of their care experiences—how they defined themselves and placed themselves in the world—were instrumental in their entry into selling sex. From these themes, a framework for understanding young women’s involvement in commercial sex is drawn that traces young women’s paths from living in/leaving care to selling sex. The article includes discussion of the implications for social work practice with vulnerable young women and recommendations for interventions.

This Morning I’m A Researcher, This Afternoon I’m An Outreach Worker: Ethical Dilemmas in Practitioner Research

Abstract: The paper discusses the ethical dilemmas of conducting feminist participatory action research (O’Neill, M., 2001) on the links between local authority care and routes into selling sex whilst I was working for an outreach service for women in the sex industry. All of the women who participated in the research were women who were users of the service. As such the processes of access, maintaining follow up support and the vulnerability of women who disclosed experiences of care (but were primarily in need of professional intervention), were qualitatively different to those faced by external researchers. The research was supplemented by my knowledge of the women and yet was also hindered by my concern for the women as their support provider first and foremost; some women’s valuable stories remain untold. The paper goes on to show how resolution of the ethical dilemmas was an integral part of methodology design and implementation, and ultimately prioritising the women’s welfare was lent an added dimension by m...

'Moved around like bags of rubbish nobody wants': How multiple placement moves can make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation.

Abstract: This paper discusses findings from an exploratory study that sought to identify how local authority care places young women at risk of sexual exploitation through prostitution by unpicking the ‘culture of care’, and focuses on frequent placement moves and the role of discontinuity. The author's experience of working with sexually exploited young women in local authority care, and women in street prostitution, provides a backdrop for the study. Findings are drawn from life story interviews with 14 young women with backgrounds of local authority care and prostitution and the ethical dimensions are also discussed. Young women reported that multiple placement moves within care were profoundly destabilising. Their capacities to develop trusting relationships with others and feel settled were limited by frequent placement breakdowns, leading to a kaleidoscope of ways in which they became vulnerable to sexual exploitation through prostitution. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Definitions, discourses and dilemmas: policy and academic engagement with the sexualisation of popular culture

Abstract: While debates around sexualisation are underway in academic, policy, practitioner and popular contexts, there are tensions as well as connections across and within these arenas. This article traces the origins of policymakers' engagement with sexualisation and reflects on the conclusions from the recent reviews commissioned by the current and former Westminster governments, including links with strategic responses to violence against women and girls (VAWG). Within academia, themes of agency, participation and pleasures in sexualised culture(s) are, arguably, more dominant. Here, we explore these differing engagements with the issue of sexualisation. We draw on the practice-based evidence of women's organisations, and suggest this constitutes an ‘epistemic community’ [Haas, P.M. 1992. Introduction: Epistemic communities and international policy co-ordination. International Organization 46, no. 1: 1–35; cited in Walby, S. 2011a. The future of feminism. Cambridge: Polity Press], a vantage point from where se...

The archaeology of knowledge

Abstract: We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The Sexual Contract

Abstract: 1. Contracting In. 2. Patriarchal Confusions. 3. Contract, the Individual and Slavery. 4. Genesis, Fathers and the Political Liberty of Sons. 5. Wives, Slaves and Wage-Slaves. 6. Feminism and the Marriage Contract. 7. What's Wrong with Prostitution?

Truth and Power

Abstract: Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-223260View record in Web of Science Record created on 2016-11-21, modified on 2016-11-21

`We're Over-Researched Here!' Exploring Accounts of Research Fatigue within Qualitative Research Engagements

Abstract: Despite a number of references to research fatigue and over-researching in the literature, the concepts have yet to be empirically investigated within qualitative contexts. This article, therefore, seeks to explore how researchers understand and account for research fatigue and over-researching. Using the results generated from a grounded analysis, a number of precursors are identified and discussed. These include lack of perceptible change attributable to engagement, increasing apathy and indifference toward engagement, and practical causes such as cost, time, and organization. It is suggested that marked levels of research fatigue are likely to occur where the mechanisms that challenge research engagement increase and the supporting mechanisms decrease. Furthermore, claims of over-researching are likely to be reported in contexts where repeated engagements do not lead to any experience of change or where the engagement comes into conflict with the primary aims and interests of the research group.