Released from Gender? Reflexivity, Performativity, and Therapeutic Discourses

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Authors	LIŠKOVÁ Kateřina
Year of publication	2011
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	The Sociological Review
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2011.01969.x/abstract
Field	Sociology, demography
Keywords	gender; reflexivity; detraditionalization; discourse; Czech Republic
Description	My paper is an analysis of contemporary Czech expert discourses on love and coupledom, framed within ongoing feminist discussions of sociological theory’s emphasis on the individualization, reflexivity and detraditionalization of gender. Using Bourdieu’s notion of symbolic violence, I argue for understanding therapeutic discourses as perlocutionary speech acts that authoritatively enact gendered norms and heteronormative assumptions. This performative approach both challenges heightened reflexivity theory by pointing to its flawed voluntarism, and also allows for grasping transformation through fissures between a perlocutionary act and its reception.
Related projects:	Reproduction and integration of society