Gendering the Interview: Feminist Reflections on Gender as Performance in Research

This reflexive essay argues that gender is co-performed but that researchers have greater responsibility for gender performances during research. In the present case, the author began an oral history project with a masculine definition of history, cast narrators using gendered criteria, directed gen...

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Published inWomen's studies in communication Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 165 - 192
Main Author Golombisky, Kim
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Published Laramie Taylor & Francis Group 01.10.2006
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2152-999X
DOI10.1080/07491409.2006.10162497

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Abstract This reflexive essay argues that gender is co-performed but that researchers have greater responsibility for gender performances during research. In the present case, the author began an oral history project with a masculine definition of history, cast narrators using gendered criteria, directed gendered communication performances during interviewing, and elicited narratives via gendered categories. Understanding gender as co-performative encourages researchers to study the communication of gender and to consider the ways they may gender their work.
AbstractList This reflexive essay argues that gender is co-performed but that researchers have greater responsibility for gender performances during research. In the present case, the author began an oral history project wild a masculine definition of history, cast narrators using gendered criteria, directed gendered communication performances during interviewing, and elicited narratives via gendered categories. Understanding gender as co-performative encourages researchers to study the communication of gender and to consider the ways they may gender their work. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
This reflexive essay argues that gender is co-performed but that researchers have greater responsibility for gender performances during research. In the present case, the author began an oral history project with a masculine definition of history, cast narrators using gendered criteria, directed gendered communication performances during interviewing, and elicited narratives via gendered categories. Understanding gender as co-performative encourages researchers to study the communication of gender and to consider the ways they may gender their work.
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