Kitzinger2000
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Kitzinger2000 |
| Author(s) | Celia Kitzinger |
| Title | Doing feminist conversation analysis |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Feminism |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Journal | Feminism & Psychology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 163–193 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/0959353500010002001 |
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Abstract
This article argues for, and offers empirical demonstration of, the value of conversation analysis (CA) for feminist research. It counters three key criticisms of CA as anti-feminist: the alleged incompatibility of CA’s social theory with feminism; the purported difficulty of reconciling analysts’ and participants’ concerns; and CA’s apparent obsession with the minutiae of talk rather than socio-political reality. It demonstrates the potential of CA for advances in lesbian/feminist research through two examples: developing a feminist approach to date rape and sexual refusal; and an ongoing CA study of talk in which people ‘come out’ as lesbian, gay, bisexual or as having (had) same-sex sexual experiences. These examples are used to illustrate that it is precisely the features of CA criticized as anti-feminist which can be used productively in doing feminist conversation analysis.
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