Sex, Talk and Making Bodies in the Science Lab.

Abstract

Explores how J. Butler's work on linguistics, gender and sexuality, and a focus on conversational behaviors can contribute to understanding everyday ways through which people are (re)constituted as gendered and sexualized beings. Drawing on empirical work, the author seeks to draw attention to how talk and bodies are both authored and audienced in ways relevant to gender, and how these processes are shaped by the specific discursive repertoires and meanings shared among particular groups. This is linked to the operation of power interactionally in that these groups share 'rules' governing what kinds of gendered verbal and bodily performances will be deemed intelligible and acceptable. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (chapter)