Book Chapter

Talking Gender and Sexuality

McIlvenny, Paul

2002

Overview

This book provides 10 chapters that represent the proceedings from an international symposium entitled \"Talking Gender and Sexuality,\" which took place from 5-6 November, 1999 at Aalborg University in Denmark. The symposium was the result of the need for a different theoretical paradigm separate from the difference & dominance models that have recently monopolized the field of gender studies, yet have come to be viewed as flawed because they reduced & naturalized a more complicated world into only two genders, & typically ignored the differences within each. Central issues that these chapters are concerned with include performativity, heterosexism, verbal aggression, homosexuality, homophobia, hate speech, important differences between sex & gender, & the damaging presuppositions made by previous scholarship in gender studies & conversation analysis. In addition to the latter, another important empirical framework used in this book is feminist discursive psychology, & special attention is paid to properly selecting units of analysis, the limits of analysis (what phenomena cannot be observed), & the political nature of conversation analysis. C. Croom

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Subject: Conversation Analysis / Discourse Analysis / Feminism / LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS / Language Usage / Performative Utterances / Sex and Sexuality / Sex Differences / Verbal Aggression
• ISBN: 9789027251145, 9027251142