Publications

Publication details [#55092]

Daly Thompson, Katrina. 2011. Zanzibari women’s discursive and sexual agency: Violating gendered speech prohibitions through talk about supernatural sex. Discourse & Society 22 (1) : 3–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | gender | language use | sex | women's language

Language as a subject

Swahili

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Examining a conversation with two Zanzibari women about sex between humans and spirits, this study shows how these women manage to subvert gender-based discourse restrictions on the discussion of sex and desire.