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Beyond Identity: Queer Theory
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sauntson, Helen |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Having considered how innovative combinations of SFDA, FPDA and CDA can offer more fruitful analyses than adopting a single approach, this final analysis chapter considers the further incorporation of perspectives which highlight the political significance of what the previous analyses reveal. The analyses presented and discussed in Chapter 4 show how CDA and FPDA can offer differing interpretations of the same data (although there are similarities in the interpretations offered by each approach as well), but those interpretations are not necessarily incompatible. In this chapter, I argue that incorporating elements of queer theory can further our understanding of how ideologies of gender and sexuality are constructed, negotiated, maintained and challenged by the students in their spoken interaction. In doing so, I draw on previous work which has explored the uses of queer theory in analysing gender, sexuality and language (Bucholtz and Hall, 2004; Leap, 2008; Morrish and Sauntson, 2007; Sauntson, 2008). Queer theory is helpful for achieving this because it takes 'normality' itself as its main object of investigation. Rather than presenting gender as an a priori category — as something which is already there waiting to be 'discovered' — queer theory interrogates the underlying preconditions of gender identity, and how these may be enacted and formulated in discourse. |
| Starting Page | 166 |
| Ending Page | 202 |
| Page Count | 37 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230343580_5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1057/9780230343580_5 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
