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a discursive investigation
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reynolds, Jill
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 37 2008
- Description
- The increase in numbers of single people has been described as one of the greatest social phenomena of western society. Most women will spend periods of their lives alone, without a committed partner relationship. Yet there is still a degree of social stigma attached to this status. Single women are a crucial group for study in relation to perceived changes in family life and relationships. In an examination of extracts from her interviews with women aged 30 to 60 years and living alone, Reynolds explores how women deal with this potentially stigmatized identity. She focuses on identity and self-representation made by the participants. Her analysis highlights that the culturally available and familiar resources for understanding singleness are highly polarized. Single women weave their way through the extreme contrasts of a denigrated or an empowered identity. Thus, while most participants give very positive accounts, they also pay attention to widespread social expectations that success in life involves a long-term committed relationship.
psychology, feminism, and the discourse analysis
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Anderson, Irina
- Creator
- Doherty, Kathy
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2008 - B
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- seksueel geweld, verkrachtingen, slachtoffers, daders, feminisme, seksuele voorkeur, methoden van onderzoek
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- The authors look at existing psychological experimental research on rape, which, they argue, fails to analyse the subtlety and political significance of rape supportive reasoning and the forms that it takes, thus also underestimating the extent of rape supportive reasoning. The authors provide a critical interrogation of dominant theories and methodologies, and thought-provoking analyses of conversational data, exploring everyday accounting practices in relation to reports of both female and male rape. They synthesize discursive psychology and a feminist standpoint to explore precisely how rape and rape victimhood are defined in ways that reflect the social, political and cultural conditions of society. .They show how the gender and sexual orientation of alleged victims and perpetrators is crucial to social participants when making sense of a rape report and in apportioning blame and sympathy. Crucial to this is the way in which rape supportive talk is underpinned by a range of deeply ingrained cultural sense-making resources that construct and legitimate hegemonic forms of heterosexual identities and gender relations and neo-liberal notions of ideal citizenship. Finally, the authors demonstrate the potential of the application for their approach in both professional and academic contexts to promote
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