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Henderson, Emily F. (2014) Bringing up gender : academic abjection? Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 22 (1). pp. 21-38. doi:10.1080/14681366.2013.877202 ISSN 1468-1366.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2013.877202
Abstract
The principal questions raised in this article are: what does it mean to bring up the topic of gender in a space where it is not known, and how can this moment of bringing up gender – or not bringing it up – be conceptualised? The article departs from the thoughts and questions that were provoked by an interview conducted with a Gender Studies student as part of a wider study; the personal experiences of the author and the theoretical interrogation of the issue of bringing up gender are also addressed as ‘data’. The approach that I develop builds on and troubles other Social Scientists’ uses of Julia Kristeva’s theorisation of abjection in Powers of Horror (1980), and constructs a notion of qualitative analysis that uses Kristeva’s conceptualisation of metaphor to relate theory to data. I attempt a use of the theory that accords with the textual representation of abjection in Powers of Horror. During the article, the notion of ‘bringing up gender’ evolves from a question of not knowing how to bring up gender, to not knowing how to bring up the never-knowable that is gender in the context of academic abjection. The aim of the article is to destabilise reflection on how gender ‘knowledge’ is – and can be – brought into relevance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Pedagogy, Culture & Society | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1468-1366 | ||||
Official Date: | 20 March 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 21-38 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/14681366.2013.877202 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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