Claire and Jose get off their cake: ecstasy, raving and women’s pleasure in 1990s Britain

Clark, Peder ORCID: 0000-0003-0851-4973 (2021) Claire and Jose get off their cake: ecstasy, raving and women’s pleasure in 1990s Britain. Cultural and Social History, 20 (1). pp. 1-16.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2021.1976702

Abstract

Momentous shifts in British nightlife were catalysed by the drug ecstasy during the 1990s. This article explores the tension between older attitudes towards women’s drug use and new discourses of feminine pleasure by using materials produced by Lifeline, a Manchester-based drugs harm reduction charity. These leaflets provided advice to young women about how to navigate nightclubs when taking ecstasy. By reading these sources against the grain, this article recovers the pleasures occluded by them and reconstructs what ecstasy and rave meant to young women, beyond the narratives of risk and harm presented to them through the media.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Ecstasy, nightclubs, drugs, rave, gender
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2021 09:21
Last Modified:	08 Mar 2023 22:04
DOI:	10.1080/14780038.2021.1976702
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2021.1976702
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3145463