Invoking the feminine physical ideal: Bitch-slapping, she-men and butch girls

Pienaar, Kiran M; Bekker, Ian

Title: Invoking the feminine physical ideal: Bitch-slapping, she-men and butch girls
Creator: Pienaar, Kiran M
Creator: Bekker, Ian
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2006
Date: 2006
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469201
Identifier: vital:77219
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.2989/16073610609486432
Description: This paper presents the results of research on the discursive construction of one aspect of gender identity: the female physical ideal. Applying Butler's (1993) theory of performativity to a real-life local context, it critically analyses how a group of young South African women discursively construct and perform the notion of the ideal feminine body in conversation with their female friends. Furthermore, it uses elements of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework (Fairclough, 1992; 2001) to provide a linguistic analysis of the ideologies which underlie this construction. Recognising that ideologies are unstable and dynamic, it seeks to account for the ideological tensions and ambiguities in the discourses surrounding the feminine body.
Format: 11 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Southern African linguistics and applied language studies
Relation: Pienaar, K. and Bekker, I., 2006. Invoking the feminine physical ideal: Bitch-slapping, she-men and butch girls. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24(4), pp.437-447
Relation: Southern African linguistics and applied language studies volume 24 number 4 437 447 2006 1727-9461
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