How Towels Came to Matter – on Discursive-Material Reconfigurings of Gender in Academia
This article seeks to develop a non-reductionist understanding that highlights how both material and discursive elements are involved in the doing of gender. It is presented as a piece of auto-ethnography, in which the author experienced how her own ‘stabilised and neutral academic gender’ suddenly...
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The Royal Danish Library
2012
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/f9176429fbf44fc59820e18952c48a24 |
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| Sumario: | This article seeks to develop a non-reductionist understanding that highlights how both material and discursive elements are involved in the doing of gender. It is presented as a piece of auto-ethnography, in which the author experienced how her own ‘stabilised and neutral academic gender’ suddenly became destabilised (and thus revealed to be material-discursive) when transferred to another material setting – specifically, a hamam in Istanbul. Although the author’s social relationships with the male participants involved were unaltered, the gendered body came to matter in a new way when it was enacted or ‘measured’ in a different apparatus. Following the plot of this autoethnography, the article investigates how a performative approach could deal with materiality, moving from J. Butler’s perspective and to a performative version of STS, particularly the concepts put forward by K. Barad. |
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