Released from Gender? Reflexivity, Performativity, and Therapeutic Discourses

Lišková, Kateřina

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.2011.01969.x

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“…Instead, the migrant ARs rely on high levels of reflexivity, which include attempts to erase old identities and gain new ones. This finding contradicts the position of scholars, such as Lišková (2010) and Sweetman (2003), who suggest habitus is less receptive to identity work. While the misfit between contexts, concerns and dispositions generates numerous constraints, the migrant AR's upward mobility intentions and occupational aspirations do not seem to diminish.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…In contrast, other scholars argue, habitus itself can account for both the pre-reflexive and generative capacity of agents, and reflexivity could be habituated, dismissing the pro-reflexive project altogether (e.g. Aarseth, Layton, & Nielsen 2016;Adkins, 2004;Krause & Kowalski, 2013;Lišková, 2010;Noble & Watkins, 2003;Silva, 2016;Sweetman, 2003;Wacquant, 2016). Such scholars who focus on a reflexive habitus consider that reflexivity only stems from social relations and symbolic exchanges, such as shared identities (Adkins, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Habitus and reflexivity in tandem? Insights from postcolonial Sri Lanka

Wimalasena¹,

Marks²

2019

The Sociological Review

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This paper contributes to the unresolved concern about the relationship between habitus and reflexivity. Using Sri Lanka, a postcolonial social-context as the research ground, the paper provides a contemporary interpretation of individuals' reflexive and habitual behaviour that displaces Bourdieu's concept of habitus as inappropriate for the representation of 21 st century social dynamics. While Sri Lanka is often labelled a traditional society, where habitual, routine, pre-reflexive action is thought to be more common, studies that question this generalised view appear to be largely absent. Therefore, based on a critical realist morphogenetic perspective that renders the analytical possibility of both routine and conscious action, this paper investigates the role of habitus and reflexivity through seventyfive work and life histories gathered from Sri Lanka. The findings suggest that even the reproduction of traditional practices have increasingly become a reflexive task; thus, this work supports the position that habitus fails to provide reliable guidance to understand social-action, even within a society labelled as traditional.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Habitus and reflexivity in tandem? Insights from postcolonial Sri Lanka

Wimalasena¹,

Marks²

2019

The Sociological Review

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“…Certainly, social norms can be helpful much of the time. However, prescriptions in a society by dominant members, such as therapeutic discourse around the notion of what is healthy love and intimacy in a relationship (Lišková, 2010), can operate in an authoritative way that harms certain groups of people (Butler, 1990;McKinlay, 2010). Thus, certain societal norms may need to be considered as falling under the enforcement definition of coercion.…”

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An analysis of types and targets of coercive interference.

Goltz¹

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Over time, coercion, the use of power to influence someone to do what they do not want to, has become subtler, arguably because of both social pressure to reduce coercion in society and new technologies that can make it less detectable. This article draws on discussions within philosophy and psychology to reflect on the adequacy of existing definitions of coercion given this trend. A taxonomy of coercion types that combines philosophical concepts of freedom and coercion with the three-term contingency from behavioral psychology suggests that current definitions miss some of the subtler methods of coercion, particularly those that impact positive freedom. Theoretical contributions and practical applications of the taxonomy are discussed. Public Significance StatementThis article suggests that current definitions of coercion be expanded to include situations in which there is intentional interference with positive freedom, which refers to interference with an individual's ability to have agency and achieve selfmastery. A taxonomy of coercion types indicates two forms of coercion, false paternalism, and malign neglect, that need further attention in both philosophy and psychology.

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“…For instance, the belief about sex‐role transference discussed by most interviewees was rooted in the tenets of psychoanalytic theories (Maguire, ; Racker, ). Lišková () argues that therapeutic discourses authoritatively enact gendered norms and assumptions and have great persuasive power. This is evident from my data, since even those who did not practise psychoanalysis held these beliefs about the role of the therapist's sex and its importance in a counselling relationship (e.g., interviewee VF7 cited above practised family therapy; VF3 practised Gestalt)…”

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Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession

Adamson¹

2014

Gender Work & Organization

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This paper contributes to the debates on reflexivity and change by extending our understanding of (non-)reflexivity mechanisms in the discursive constructions of gender. Specifically, I explore how and why women persistently construct contradictory discursive accounts of men and masculinity in a female-dominated profession of counselling psychology in Russia. Drawing on the concept of 'interpretative repertoires' I argue that female counsellors construct different kinds of masculinities based on three 'repertoires': psycho-biological, structural and relational. I demonstrate how these constructions of masculinity are imbued with different meanings and are used to explain only certain contexts, which precludes women's ability to reflect on their contradictory nature. I conclude by discussing how an exploration of discursive (non-)reflexivity extends our understanding of the conditions for gender transformations.

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Released from Gender? Reflexivity, Performativity, and Therapeutic Discourses

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Habitus and reflexivity in tandem? Insights from postcolonial Sri Lanka

Habitus and reflexivity in tandem? Insights from postcolonial Sri Lanka

An analysis of types and targets of coercive interference.

Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession

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