Talking Gender and Sexuality
Editor
This edited volume brings together scholars from psychology, linguistics, sociology and communication science to investigate how performative notions of gender and sexuality can be fruitfully explored with the rich set of tools that have been developed by conversation analysis and discursive psychology for analyzing everyday practical language use, agency and identity in talk.
Contributors re-examine the foundations of earlier research on gender in spoken interaction, critically appraise this research to see if and how it 'translates' successfully into the study of sexuality in talk, and promote innovative alternatives that integrate the insights of recent feminist and queer theory with qualitative studies of talk and conversation. Detailed empirical analyses of naturally occurring talk are used to uncover how gender and sexual identities, agencies and desires are contingently accomplished in conversational practices. Collectively, they pose the important question of what a critical theory of talk, gender and sexuality ought to look like if it is to be sensitive to a politics of conversation analysis.
Contributors re-examine the foundations of earlier research on gender in spoken interaction, critically appraise this research to see if and how it 'translates' successfully into the study of sexuality in talk, and promote innovative alternatives that integrate the insights of recent feminist and queer theory with qualitative studies of talk and conversation. Detailed empirical analyses of naturally occurring talk are used to uncover how gender and sexual identities, agencies and desires are contingently accomplished in conversational practices. Collectively, they pose the important question of what a critical theory of talk, gender and sexuality ought to look like if it is to be sensitive to a politics of conversation analysis.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 94] 2002. x, 327 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Transcription conventions | p. viii
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1. Introduction: Researching talk, gender and sexualityPaul McIlvenny | pp. 1–48
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2. Doing feminist conversation analysisCelia Kitzinger | pp. 49–77
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3. Gender and sexuality in talk-in-interaction: Considering conversation analytic perspectivesElizabeth Stokoe and Janet Smithson | pp. 79–109
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4. Critical reflections on performativity and the‘un/doing’ of gender and sexuality in talkPaul McIlvenny | pp. 111–149
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5. From performatives to practices: Judith Butler, discursive psychology and the management of heterosexist talkSusan Speer and Jonathan Potter | pp. 151–180
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6. Negotiating gender identities and sexual agency in elderly couples’ talkLiisa Tainio | pp. 181–206
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7. Framing gender: Incongruous gendered identities in Dar es Salaam adolescents’ talkSigurd D’hondt | pp. 207–236
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8. The repressed on parole: Gender categorisation, performativity and the unsaid in talkin’ dirty jokesAndrew Fish | pp. 237–262
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9. Figuring gender in teachers’ talk about school bullyingAlexa Hepburn | pp. 263–287
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10. “I’m still not sure she’s a she”: Textual talk and typed bodies in online interactionJenny Sundén | pp. 289–312
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Biographical details | pp. 313–316
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Index | pp. 317–327
“[...] not only especially valuable to those interested in discussions about how language/discourse may figure in the construction of gender and sexuality identities, but also highly relevant to scholars interested in critical approaches to language and discourse more generally.”
Eve Chuen Ng, Macalester College, in Language, Vol. 80:2 (2004)
“Because of the methodological problems carefully analyzed by the authors, [...] this book would be very useful for its study in seminars of methodology for research in the social sciences.”
Roxana Delbende, University of Pittsburgh in Linguist, Jan. 2003
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Subjects
Linguistics
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General