Affiliation:
1. University of Colorado at Boulder
Abstract
Abstract
This case study is an analysis of college-aged womens’ conversations about feminist identity and tracks a shifting
attitude among college women with respect to feminist identification. Using conversation analysis, I argue that the interlocutors’ feminist
identity is an interactional achievement produced by collaboratively setting aside topics related to feminism. This practice
(re)problematizes feminism and maintains hegemonic standards of ‘feminist’ as an identity that needs to be accounted for in conversation.
Building on Eckert and McConnell-Ginet’s (2013) work on the phrase “I’m not a feminist, but…” I
argue that feminist identification may be shifting, as the discourse in the present study fall more in line with “I am a
feminist, but…,” producing a ‘sort of’ feminist identity. In the discursive process of relevantly setting aside qualities and practices associated with feminism, the interlocutors (re)establish normativity surrounding feminist identity and its enaction in everyday conversation.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics
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