Accountability in action: the accomplishment of gender, race and class in a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents

West, Candace; Fenstermaker, Sarah

doi:10.1177/0957926502013004455

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“…Furthermore, these critical assessments may in fact 'reproduce, naturalize, and legitimize' (Stokoe, 2004;p. 110) categorical identities and the social structures they support (West & Fenstermaker, 2002). This may have potential implications for the way in which practices such as discrimination in terms of gender equality in the workplace are practically achieved.…”

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“…Drawing primarily on conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorization analysis (MCA), DP has sought to understand how interlocutors construct social identity categories by normatively linking particular activities, rights, and obligations to specific membership categories. Thus, speakers can judge what does and does not count as legitimate for incumbents of particular categories based on cultural stereotypes and taken-for-granted knowledge regarding members of various categories (Stokoe, 2004(Stokoe, , 2011West & Fenstermaker, 2002). This approach affords the investigation of how common-sense knowledge regarding category membership is negotiated, constructed, and maintained in talk and how people are held morally accountable for membership in a particular category (Stokoe, 2011).…”

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‘I don't view myself as a woman politician, I view myself as a politician who's a woman’: The discursive management of gender identity in political leadership

Sorrentino

Augoustinos

2016

British J Social Psychol

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Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard's speech in the Australian parliament on sexism and misogyny received considerable public attention and controversy. However, less attention has been paid to how Gillard attended and oriented to issues related to her status as a woman during the period between her elevation to the position of Prime Minister in June 2010 and the delivery of the misogyny speech in October 2012. Using a discursive psychological approach, this article examines a corpus of interview transcripts in which gender was occasioned both explicitly and implicitly by speakers, thus requiring Gillard to attend to her gender identity. The analysis demonstrates that far from making gender a salient and relevant membership category, Gillard worked strategically to mitigate her gender as merely inconsequential to her role as Prime Minister. These findings are discussed in relation to existing research examining how gender is oriented to, negotiated, and resisted in talk to accomplish social actions, and more specifically what may be at stake for women in leadership positions who explicitly orient to gender as an identity category.

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‘I don't view myself as a woman politician, I view myself as a politician who's a woman’: The discursive management of gender identity in political leadership

Sorrentino

Augoustinos

2016

British J Social Psychol

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“…More recent studies on gender and language suggest that gender dominance is a social construction (Baron & Kotthoff 2002, Kiesling 1998, Wodak 1997, West & Fenstermaker 2002. They reveal how it is achieved, maintained, and reproduced by speakers by taking full account of its context.…”

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Gender and conversational dominance in Japanese conversation

Itakura¹,

Tsui²

2004

Lang. Soc.

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A number of studies have been conducted on "dominance" as reflected in spoken interactional features, most of which deal with English. Many of these studies adopt a quantitative approach, examining the amount and distribution of interactional features such as amount of talk, interruptions and overlaps, turn-taking, questions, and topic initiations, and they have drawn conclusions on "dominance" accordingly. The present study explores gender dominance in conversation by analyzing conversational data from eight Japanese dyads by integrating quantitative and qualitative analyses. The quantitative analysis of two dimensions of conversational dominance, sequential dominance and participatory dominance, does not show any obvious gender dominance; however, the qualitative analysis of three of the dyads finds a clear pattern of male speakers' self-oriented conversational style, which is manifested in their storytelling and claiming expertise, and this is supported by female speakers' other-oriented conversational style. Gender dominance therefore is seen as a mutual construction. The conclusion discusses the importance of integrating findings from both quantitative and qualitative analyses in situated contexts to deepen understanding of the complexity of gender dominance. (Japanese conversation, gender, conversational dominance, conversational orientation, conversational style.)* I N T R O D U C T I O NStudies of the effects of gender and social dominance on conversational interaction in English have suggested that the domination of male over female is manifested in various ways in this context as a micro-institution, just as it is

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“…Such is the typical structure in both regularly recurring governance bodies such as city council meetings (Leighter & Black, 2010), school board meetings (Tracy, 2007), and university trustee boards (West & Fenstermaker, 2002), and in meetings that are specially set to decide about an action or policy that is controversial, such as building of a Wal-Mart (Buttny, 2009(Buttny, , 2010 or introduction of a Disney Park (Olson & Goodnight, 2004) in a community.…”

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Democracy-Appealing Partisanship: A Situated Ideal of Citizenship

Tracy¹,

Hughes²

2014

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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This study develops a context-grounded ideal about how citizens ought to communicate in legislative hearings about contentious issues. We begin with an overview of the dominant model of good citizen discourse, democratic deliberation, and argue why it is an inappropriate norm for public hearings in state legislative bodies. After overviewing grounded practical theory (GPT), the meta-theoretical approach used, and providing background on the demands of public meetings, we describe the public hearing that is the focal data. That hearing was the 18-hour, 2009 Hawaii hearing on a bill that proposed to recognize committed relationships of same-sex couples through civil unions. The analysis of citizen testimony evidences a discourse strategy, democracyappealing partisanship, which speakers on both sides of the issue used to manage the challenges they confronted in speaking out. This strategy involved advocating strongly for one viewpoint as an appeal to either majority rule or minority rights and/or either freedom of religion or separation of church and state were made. In concluding, we describe the problem to which this strategy is responsive, justify the norm of democracy-appealing partisanship, and offer implications for future studies using GPT.

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Accountability in action: the accomplishment of gender, race and class in a meeting of the University of California Board of Regents

Cited by 59 publications

References 17 publications

‘I don't view myself as a woman politician, I view myself as a politician who's a woman’: The discursive management of gender identity in political leadership

‘I don't view myself as a woman politician, I view myself as a politician who's a woman’: The discursive management of gender identity in political leadership

Gender and conversational dominance in Japanese conversation

Democracy-Appealing Partisanship: A Situated Ideal of Citizenship

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