Exit, Voice, and Gender

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2364014
AutoresRogers Brubaker (0000-0003-2804-493X, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas154-174
Fecha de publicación2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07352751231169955
OpenAlexW4376149780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas63

Albert Hirschman's exit-voice paradigm provides a useful lens for analyzing the current neo-categorical phase of gender politics in which attention has shifted from the content of the binary gender categories to the structure of the gender category system. During this phase of categorical destabilization, exit from originally assigned categories-in bureaucratically recorded, statistically reported, and informally negotiated forms-has become culturally legitimate and institutionally supported in a broadening range of milieus. Hirschman's paradigm brings into focus the selectivity of exit and its potentially-and paradoxically-stabilizing consequences for the traditional gender order. The increased ease and pronounced selectivity of exit can channel dissatisfaction with gender arrangements into exit rather than voice or-as exit may itself be a form of voice-into individualized, psychologically driven forms of voice. And the selective exit of gender-nonconforming individuals from originally assigned categories can reinforce the stereotypical associations of these categories with gender conformity

Categorical variable · Categorization · Cognitive psychology · Conformity · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unpacking · Computer Science · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology