CASLC Feb. 2 2023 Dr. Marco Pino Bases of misgendering in social interaction
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| Type | Seminar |
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| Dates | 2023/02/02 - 2023/02/02 |
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| Notification date | 2023/02/02 |
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CASLC Feb. 2 2023 Dr. Marco Pino Bases of misgendering in social interaction:
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The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language & Communication (CASLC) is delighted to present a talk by…
Dr Marco Pino
Loughborough University
Paper co-authored with Dr David Edmonds
The University of Hong Kong
Bases of misgendering in social interaction
Date: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Time: 2.30pm-4.00pm (UK time)
Place: Hybrid. In person: LMB/102b (the Boardroom in the Law and Sociology building) Campus East, University of York.
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Abstract
Misgendering refers to a set of practices through which people are miscategorised in terms of their gender. Whilst this can happen to anybody, being misgendered has profoundly negative and exclusionary outcomes for people whose gender self-designations do not align to the ‘sex’ assigned to them at birth (including transgender and non-binary people). Previous research carried out on textual media (Ansara & Hegarty, 2013; Capuzza, 2015; Gupta, 2019; Ingram, 2019) showed how practices of misgendering embody and reproduce several cisgenderist assumptions—cisgenderism being “the ideology that delegitimises people’s own designations of their genders and bodies” (Ansara & Hegarty, 2014, p. 260).
Our research aims to advance understandings in this area by investigating misgendering in social interaction. We examine a collection of instances of misgendering from openly accessible video sharing platforms and podcasts featuring different types of interaction (for the most part, broadcast interviews and debates, and interactions in public spaces). Drawing upon ethnomethodology, we consider misgendering as a breaching moment in which otherwise smooth and unnoticed practices of gender attribution fail or are subject to contestation. We then focus on participants’ orientations to the accountability of those breaches. By analysing participants’ accounts, we hope to gain access to publicly displayed understandings of the bases of misgendering. These bases are the normative considerations that participants invoke to account for, and normalise, the gender (mis)attribution that a misgendering embodies. We show that these accounts embody normative understandings of gender grounded in two sets of assumptions: the mapping of gender onto cues associated with external appearance; and the mapping of present gender designations onto former gender designations. We further draw on feminist conversation analysis to investigate not only what participants say, but also what they appear to omit from their accounts, thus tacitly reproducing taken for granted assumptions about gender. In these ways, we hope to contribute to understandings of how gender is reproduced in social interaction.
