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Released from Gender? Reflexivity, Performativity, and Therapeutic Discourses.
- Source :
- Sociological Review; 2010 Suppl 2, Vol. 58, p189-204, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- My paper is an analysis of contemporary Czech expert discourses on love and coupledom, framed within ongoing feminist discussions of sociological theory's emphasis on the individualization, reflexivity and detraditionalization of gender. Using Bourdieu's notion of symbolic violence, I argue for understanding therapeutic discourses as perlocutionary speech acts that authoritatively enact gendered norms and heteronormative assumptions. This performative approach both challenges heightened reflexivity theory by pointing to its flawed voluntarism, and also allows for grasping transformation through fissures between a perlocutionary act and its reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- REFLEXIVITY
SOCIAL theory
GENDER
DISCOURSE
VOLUNTEER service
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380261
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163519906
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.01969.x