Actually we probably can do better than just personal experiences. we can look at the large body of empirical work on gender and discourse showing that the subjective perceptions people have are (often) backable up by empirical evidence about how people do power, gender, and identities in talk (Nancy Fraser is particularly smart as is Sandra Harding)
Here are some hors d'oeuvres
Adkins, L., & Merchant, V. (1996). Sexualizing the social : power and the organization of sexuality. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Blair, M., Holland, J., & Sheldon, S. (1995). Identity and diversity : gender and the experience of education : a reader. Clevedon [England] ; Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, in association with the Open University.
Corson, D. (1993). Language, minority education, and gender : linking social justice and power. Clevedon [England] ; Philadelphia
Toronto: Multilingual Matters ;
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
De Lauretis, T. (1989). Technologies of gender : essays on theory, film, and fiction. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Dolan, J. (1993). Presence and desire : essays on gender, sexuality, performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Fraser, N. (1989). Unruly practices : power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory. Cambridge, England: Polity Press.
Fraser, N. (1989). Unruly practices : power, discourse, and gender in contemporary social theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Kondo, D. K. (1990). Crafting selves : power, gender, and discourses of identity in a Japanese workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lewis, R. (1996). Gendering Orientalism : race, femininity, and representation. New York: Routledge.
Lorraine, T. E. (1990). Gender, identity, and the production of meaning. Boulder: Westview Press.
Malti-Douglas, F. (1991). Woman's body, woman's word : gender and discourse in Arabo-Islamic writing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Manoliu Manea, M., & Price, G. (1994). Discourse and pragmatic constraints on grammatical choices : a grammar of surprises. Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier.
McClintock, A. (1995). Imperial leather : race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial contest. New York: Routledge.
Mills, S. (1995). Language and gender : interdisciplinary perspectives. New York: Longman.
Nochimson, M. (1992). No end to her : soap opera and the female subject. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Pykett, L. (1992). The "improper" feminine : the women's sensation novel and the new woman writing. London ; New York: Routledge.
Shiach, M. (1989). Discourse on popular culture : class, gender and history in cultural analysis, 1730 to the present. Cambridge: Polity.
Shiach, M. (1989). Discourse on popular culture : class, gender, and history in cultural analysis, 1730 to the present. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Solie, R. A. (1993). Musicology and difference : gender and sexuality in music scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Squire, C. (1993). Women and AIDS : psychological perspectives. London ; Newbury Park: SAGE Publications.
Sullivan, B. A., & Whitehouse, G. (1996). Gender, politics, and citizenship in the 1990s. Sydney: UNSW Press.
Sunder Rajan, R. (1993). Real and imagined women : gender, culture, and postcolonialism. London ; New York: Routledge.
Todd, A. D., & Fisher, S. (1988). Gender and discourse : the power of talk. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Pub. Corp.
Davies, B., Gilbert, P., Whitehouse, H., & James Cook University of North Queensland. School of Education. (1995). Gender, discourse and education : a bibliography. Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University of North Queensland, School of Education.
Franklin, S. (1996). The sociology of gender. Cheltenham, Glos., UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US: Edward Elgar Pub.
Kotthoff, H., & Wodak, R. (1997). Communicating gender in context. Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia: J. Benjamin.
Dr Gavin Melles
Lecturer, Research Degree Skills
Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Mob (03) 0402927278
>>> Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> 01/21/08 20:43 PM >>>
Hi Teena,
I'm interested in your feelings about how much of the differences that
yourself, Fiona and others see is what you bring in your looking, thinking
and feeling and how much is in what people are doing in the situation?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Hi all,
Fiona talks about her embodied experiences in design research,
sitting through meetings and listening to the various ways in design
is perceived in a large faculty. I am curious to hear of others'
personal experiences, and particularly welcome those not based on
'proof'. In this call, I do not wish to debate 'validity' because
from my epistemological position, all writing is fiction.
Teena
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