Robles2017b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Robles2017b |
| Author(s) | Jessica S Robles, Anastacia Kurylo |
| Title | ‘Let’s have the men clean up’: Interpersonally communicated stereotypes as a resource for resisting gender-role prescribed activities |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, CA, Gender, Stereotype, Categories, Accounts, Complaints, Directives, Household labor, Membership Categorization Device |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 19 |
| Number | 6 |
| Pages | 673-693 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445617727184 |
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Abstract
This article examines a productive use of communicating gender stereotypes in interpersonal conversation: to resist activities traditionally prescribed according to gender. The analyses video-taped naturally occurring US household interactions and present three techniques participants may deploy to contest gender expectations: mobilizing categories, motivating alignment and reframing action. We show how gender is an accountable category in relation to household labor, and how gender categories provide a resource by which participants can non-seriously solicit and resist participation in domestic gender-prescribed activities. Our analysis provides some insight into how participants use gender stereotypes in everyday talk and what functions such talk serves.
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