Wilkinson-Kitzinger2007
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Wilkinson-Kitzinger2007 |
| Author(s) | Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger |
| Title | Conversation analysis, gender and sexuality |
| Editor(s) | Ann Weatherall, Bernadette Watson, Cindy Gallois |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
| Year | 2007 |
| Language | English |
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| Pages | 206–230 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230206168_9 |
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| Book title | Language, Discourse and Social Psychology |
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Abstract
This chapter explores the use of conversation analysis in studying gender and sexuality from a feminist perspective. We are both long-time feminist researchers and activists (see, for example, Kitzinger, 1987, 2004; Kitzinger & Wilkinson, 2004; Wilkinson 1986, 2007; Wilkinson & Kitzinger, 1993). Feminism means developing an understanding of oppression on the basis of gender and sexuality and acting to end it. Oppression operates at many levels – from rape, physical violence and intimidation (Amnesty International, 2001), through discriminatory legislation and institutional practices (Wilkinson & Kitzinger, 2006), to beauty practices (Jeffreys, 2005), offensive joking, banter and innuendo (Hall & Bucholtz, 1995). In our current research, we focus on mundane, routine, everyday forms of oppression: the ‘micro-inequalities’ of social life (Haslett & Lipman, 1997). We are committed to understanding how sexist and heterosexist presumptions are threaded through the ordinary practices of talk and interaction that, cumulatively, constitute an oppressive social order. Conversation analysis offers a powerful and rigorous method for exposing the mundane oppressions of everyday life.
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