“The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one”: “us” and “them” in<i>Diva</i>magazine

Turner, Georgina

doi:10.1080/10350330802217147

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“…Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used to explore how hegemonic masculinities were represented in Australian Men's Health magazine. A discourse analysis framework is appropriate for understanding social conventions through exploring the relationship between discourse and reality . Discourses are embedded in language and consequently inform our practices and structures of social life .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Discourses are embedded in language and consequently inform our practices and structures of social life . Recognising how discourse can be produced at various levels, we are able to explore how words, text, imagery, behaviours, actions, bureaucratic forms and physical arrangements construct our way of thinking . Therefore, a critical discourse analysis was selected as the guiding framework as it allows for an understanding of how men's subjective experiences are socially and culturally constructed through the production of masculine ideals in men's health and lifestyle magazines .…”

Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A discourse analysis framework is appropriate for understanding social conventions through exploring the relationship between discourse and reality. 7,8,[16][17][18] Discourses are embedded in language and consequently inform our practices and structures of social life. 19,20 Recognising how discourse can be produced at various levels, we are able to explore how words, text, imagery, behaviours, actions, bureaucratic forms and physical arrangements construct our way of thinking.…”

Section: Me Th Odological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Becoming the man you always wanted to be”: Exploring the representation of health and masculinity in Men's Health magazine

Lewington

Sebar

Lee

2018

Health Prom J of Aust

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Despite this shift in the representation of masculinity, hegemonic ideals remain dominant in the construction of Australian masculinity in this popular men's health and lifestyle magazine. SO WHAT?: This study highlights the utility of Men's Health magazine in promoting health and brings into question whether the current representation of masculinity works towards improving or decreasing the health of Australian men.

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Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Me Th Odological Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lee

2018

Health Prom J of Aust

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“…There is ample evidence for this process occurring within language and sexuality research, too; Turner (2008) demonstrates how language is used in the British lesbian magazine Diva to construct a shared sense of community, by focusing on presumed homogeneity between its readers and by othering non-lesbians. Similarly, Wong and Zhang (2000) describe the Tongzhi community, an imagined community of gay and lesbian people in East Asia, as it is constructed by a magazine catering for this readership.…”

Section: Language Sexuality and Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Dolls or teddies?”

Jones

2014

JLS

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A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the repository url above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. The concept of 'community' often presents a problem for queer linguists. 'The gay community' is often viewed as an impossible site for research due to its imagined status, whilst local communities of gay people have been considered too heterogeneous and idiosyncratic to draw conclusions from. In this article, however, it is argued that both of these aspects of community can, and should, be a central focus of an investigation into language and sexual identity. Through the analysis of a conversation emerging from a lesbian group, using a sociocultural linguistics framework, it is argued here that the community of practice approach can play a crucial role in understanding how ideologies from 'the gay community' are used to construct a coherent sexual identity on a local level. The analysis reveals how the group engages in practices that enable them to construct micro-level personas in direct response to broader, ideological structures of heteronormativity.

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“…While the study broadly addressed the construction of a collective identity and the 'us' and 'them' produced (for an example of some early analysis along these lines, see Turner, 2011), the focus of this article is specifically on the boundary management that such construction entails -defining 'us' is as much a process of defining 'not us' as anything else (Hall, 1996) -for the magazine and its readers. The desire for distinction can barely help but induce the policing of who may or may not be accepted, and invests in 'others' a sense of threat (Rutherford, 1990).…”

Section: Drawing Boundariesmentioning

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‘A Real Lesbian Wouldn't Touch a Bisexual With a Bargepole'

Turner

2014

Critical Discourse Studies

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Drawn from an investigation of the construction of collective identity in DIVA magazine between 1994 and 2004, this article considers the discursive contestation of the boundaries necessarily, though never straightforwardly, erected in the process. Analysing first a selection of articles and second (and more substantially) debates about who 'we' are in and between readers' letters, the article focuses on the 'trouble' posed by bisexuality in this era. Readers draw on and contest a cluster of interrelated characterisations of bisexuals: as undecided, as a kind of pollutant, and as inadequate facsimiles of 'real lesbians', as well as more or less open characterisations of 'us'. These arguments are necessarily managed editorially, and always 'end' with calls for acceptance. This does not fully recover the ambiguity with which bisexuality is handled, however, and the article concludes by discussing the dilemma(s) faced by the imagined community.

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“The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one”: “us” and “them” inDivamagazine

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

“Becoming the man you always wanted to be”: Exploring the representation of health and masculinity in Men's Health magazine

“Becoming the man you always wanted to be”: Exploring the representation of health and masculinity in Men's Health magazine

“Dolls or teddies?”

‘A Real Lesbian Wouldn't Touch a Bisexual With a Bargepole'

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