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Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis
Celia Kitzinger
Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. C.C.Kitzinger{at}lboro.ac.uk
This article argues for, and offers empirical demonstration of, the value of conversation analysis (CA) for feminist research. It counters three key criticisms of CA as anti-feminist: the alleged incompatibility of CA’s social theory with feminism; the purported difficulty of reconciling analysts’ and participants’ concerns; and CA’s apparent obsession with the minutiae of talk rather than socio-political reality. It demonstrates the potential of CA for advances in lesbian/feminist research through two examples: developing a feminist approach to date rape and sexual refusal; and an ongoing CA study of talk in which people ‘come out’ as lesbian, gay, bisexual or as having (had) same-sex sexual experiences. These examples are used to illustrate that it is precisely the features of CA criticized as anti-feminist which can be used productively in doing feminist conversation analysis.
Key Words: coming out • conversation analysis • date rape • ethnomethodology • feminism • refusal • talk-in-interaction • turn-taking
Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 10, No. 2,
163-193 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353500010002001
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