Henderson, Emily F. (2014) Bringing up gender : academic abjection? Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 22 (1). pp. 21-38. doi:10.1080/14681366.2013.877202

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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
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Journal or Publication Title:	Pedagogy, Culture & Society
ISSN:	1468-1366
Official Date:	2014
Dates:	Date Event 2014 Published
Volume:	22
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 21-38
DOI:	10.1080/14681366.2013.877202
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published

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