Wowk1984
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Wowk1984 |
| Author(s) | Maria T. Wowk |
| Title | Blame allocation, sex and gender in a murder Interrogation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Gender, Police |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Journal | Women's Studies International Forum |
| Volume | 7 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 75–82 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/0277-5395(84)90087-6 |
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Abstract
The paper examines an actual confession to murder. In it a sexual encounter was reconstructed in the narrative of the confession; and this ‘talk about…’ constitutes and elaborates actual sexual practices. An overriding concern for the suspect is to allocate some of the blame for her death onto the victim; and he does this largely on the basis of a particular sexual description of her. In the interrogation gender is tacitly used as a background schema for performing ‘other’ actions, so trading on ‘what we all know’ about women and men rather than being directly used to make disparaging remarks about the victim. It concludes that sexual politics is an accomplishment, an outcome, in this case the outcome of language-embedded procedures for distributing blame and guilt.
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