Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction to The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Part One Openings and Orientations
- Part Two Knowledges and Domains
- 6 Gender, Sociality, and the Person
- 7 The Postmodern Moment in Gender Studies and Anthropology
- 8 Gender(ed) Language and the Linguistics of Sexuality
- 9 Conceptualizing Bodies, Hierarchy, and Gendering across Cultures
- 10 Language, Gender and Sexuality, and Performativity
- 11 Anthropological Engagements with Men and Masculinities
- Part Three Resistances and Intersections
- Part Four Desires and Relations
- Part Five Recursivities and Futures
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
10 - Language, Gender and Sexuality, and Performativity
from Part Two - Knowledges and Domains
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction to The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
- Part One Openings and Orientations
- Part Two Knowledges and Domains
- 6 Gender, Sociality, and the Person
- 7 The Postmodern Moment in Gender Studies and Anthropology
- 8 Gender(ed) Language and the Linguistics of Sexuality
- 9 Conceptualizing Bodies, Hierarchy, and Gendering across Cultures
- 10 Language, Gender and Sexuality, and Performativity
- 11 Anthropological Engagements with Men and Masculinities
- Part Three Resistances and Intersections
- Part Four Desires and Relations
- Part Five Recursivities and Futures
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Performative inquiry – studies of doing and its consequences for being – is a prominent feature of research projects in exploring gender and sexuality, especially when gender and sexuality are closely tied to linguistic practices. Moreover, because performativity of doing unfolds in specific social and temporal contexts, performative inquiry shows how gender and sexuality become inflected variously in relation to intersectionalities and inequalities, and how language use connected to gender and sexuality becomes inflected in similar terms, as well. Performative inquiry is also concerned with assumptions about normative (or ideological) assumptions that regulate “commonsense” distinctions between valued and not-so-valued practices of doing and being. This chapter’s case studies and discussion show how gender and sexuality are shaped by performative practices and how language use is entailed within these gendered and sexual performative formations.
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