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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Autor principal:	Tine Damsholt
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	DA EN NB SV
Publicado:	The Royal Danish Library 2012
Materias:	Social Sciences H
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f9176429fbf44fc59820e18952c48a242021-12-01T00:07:19ZHow Towels Came to Matter – on Discursive-Material Reconfigurings of Gender in Academia10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.280712245-6937https://doaj.org/article/f9176429fbf44fc59820e18952c48a242012-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/28071https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937This 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.Tine DamsholtThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleSocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Iss 1-2 (2012)
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description	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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How Towels Came to Matter – on Discursive-Material Reconfigurings of Gender in Academia

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