Susan Speer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1206008 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Susan Speer |
| PRENOMES | Susan |
| SOBRENOME | Speer |
| ASSINATURA | SPEER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3048-2851 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 350 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Ethnic minority patients' experiences of clinical communication with general practitioners in the United Kingdom
Look on the Bright Side
OBJECTIVES: People with breast cancer are widely encouraged to 'look on the bright side' and 'think positive' in the face of adversity, and research suggests a positive correlation between patient optimism and health outcomes. However, the promotion of a bright-side disposition has also been criticised because it can be perceived as a moral obligation that implies poor outcomes are a result of individual failure to adopt the correct attitude. In …
Kinship carers' complaints about birth parents' Facebook posts
Talking about breast symmetry in the breast cancer clinic
BACKGROUND: Breast asymmetry is a common post-operative outcome for women with breast cancer. Quality of cosmetic result is viewed clinically as a critical endpoint of surgery. However, research suggests that aesthetic standards governing breast reconstruction can be unrealistic and may problematically enforce feminine appearance norms. The aim of reconstructive procedures is to help women live well with and beyond breast cancer. Therefore, under…
Child's time
Reporting Microaggressions
The psychological concept of “microaggression” has refocused interest on what counts as prejudicial action. It redirects attention from standard socio-cognitive explanations of overt prejudice among social groups toward recipients’ perspectives of largely unwitting and subtle everyday racism. Microaggression studies define common implicit identity challenges faced by minority groups, including kinship carers. However, criticisms of the “microaggr…
Flirting
Flirting is typically regarded as an ambiguous social action, which, in the absence of members’ orientations, is subject to multiple interpretations and hard to pin down analytically. This article demonstrates a methodological technique for identifying the interactional practices that constitute vehicles for “possible flirting” by examining instances that contain (a) “endogenous” orientations to flirting, (b) orientations to flirting that are “ex…
The clinical communication and information challenges associated with the psychosexual aspects of prostate cancer treatment
Responding to -isms
I discuss the contribution of the articles to existing literatures, and their implications for (1) our understanding of the analytic tractability of -isms, and (2) managing and challenging -isms
Reflecting on the Ethics and Politics of Collecting Interactional Data
Talking about sex in the Gender Identity Clinic
This article provides the first systematic examination of the ways 'talk about sex' is occasioned and managed by doctors and patients in real-life interactions in a National Health Service Gender Identity Clinic. Drawing on a corpus of 194 recordings of psychiatric assessment sessions, the article examines how parties initiate and develop talk about sex, and which strategies appear to work best for doctor-patient alignment. The analyses revealed …
Feminist Conversation Analysis
In this short response, I want to address what I see as four problematic claims in Pauline Whelan's article, “Oxymoronic and Sociologically Monstrous? Feminist Conversation Analysis,” in this issue
Hypothetical Questions
Hypothetical questions (HQs) are a special class of conditional question that seek a response by proposing a “what-if” situation. It is not clear to what extent view testing HQs represent a generic conversational device that operates in a similar way across contexts. I conduct a comparative analysis of HQs across four different interactional settings: ordinary conversations, research interactions, broadcast news interviews, and doctor–patient con…
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise
This article contributes to a social psychological understanding of identity by identifying some features of the interactional organization of self-praise. Early conversation analytic work on the epistemics of self-assessment and constraints against self-praise has shown that praising oneself is an interactionally delicate matter that may leave one vulnerable to “unfavorable character assessment” or accusations of bragging (Pomerantz 1978:89). Dr…
Pursuing Views and Testing Commitments
This chapter, written by Susan Speer, considers the role of hypothetical questions (HQs) in interactions between psychiatrists and transsexual patients in a British gender identity clinic. The psychiatrists studied in this chapter perform a gatekeeping function vis‐à‐vis their transsexual patients in that they must diagnosis the patients as true transsexuals before the patients can receive publically funded sex reassignment surgery. Speers argues…
On Recruiting Conversation Analysis for Critical Realist Purposes
In this paper I provide a summary and evaluation of some of the key features of Sims-Schouten, Riley and Willig's multi-level, `critical realist' approach to discourse analysis, as exemplified in their study of motherhood, childcare and female employment. I argue that (i) their analyses recruit and depend on arguments and techniques from the very perspectives they criticize, and (ii) those techniques are deployed in a somewhat ad hoc fashion. Con…
Category Use in the Construction of Asylum Seekers
By looking at category use within the asylum debate, this paper investigates how participants construct 'asylum seekers'. Critical discursive psychology is used to study a corpus of public sphere data. Categorization is shown to be a powerful political and rhetorical strategy for participants in the asylum debate as they attempt to impose their own systems of classification onto the debate, and, in doing so, justify the (more or less) harsh treat…
Gatekeeping gender
Psychiatrists, like other medical professionals with a diagnosing or prescribing role, control access to a range of forms of treatment, medication and service that their patient, or their patient’s carer, may want access to. In this article, we explore psychiatrist-patient interactions in the distinctive institutional site of a UK NHS Gender Identity Clinic, where the psychiatrist’s gatekeeping role is renowned. We focus on some interactional fea…
The Interactional Organization of the Gender Attribution Process
This article illustrates some interactional properties of the 'gender attribution process' - that is, the methodical procedures through which members come to identify others as male or female (Kessler and McKenna, 1978). Drawing on data from interviews and group discussions where respondents were asked to comment on a series of pictures containing gendered images, I explore instances where members have trouble identifying the gender of the person…
Gender Talk
Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on discourse and conversation analysis, providing a full account of these methodologies through the detailed study of data from a variety of settings, in…
Methodology Needs Analytics
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
What can conversation analysis contribute to feminist methodology? Putting reflexivity into practice
This article uses conversation analysis to explore an issue central to the design and delivery of feminist research: the relationship between researcher and researched, and specifically, the impact of the former on the latter. A guiding principle of much feminist research is that it should be respondent-centred, allowing participants to set the agenda and define what is important in their own terms. Though not advocated as an explicitly feminist …
Natural' and 'contrived' data
Transcending the natural/contirved distinction
Gender Talk
Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on discourse and conversation analysis, providing a full account of these methodologies through the detailed study of data from a variety of settings, in…
Reconsidering the Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity
This article provides a critical review of Wetherell and Edley’s (1999) discursive reformulation of the concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’. While I retain some familiar features from Wetherell and Edley’s approach, I develop a discursive perspective that is located more firmly in the technical, conversation analytic tradition - as outlined in the recent exchange between Schegloff (1997, 1998) and Wetherell (1998). In particular, I argue that prev…
Category Use in the Construction of Asylum Seekers
By looking at category use within the asylum debate, this paper investigates how participants construct 'asylum seekers'. Critical discursive psychology is used to study a corpus of public sphere data. Categorization is shown to be a powerful political and rhetorical strategy for participants in the asylum debate as they attempt to impose their own systems of classification onto the debate, and, in doing so, justify the (more or less) harsh treat…
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
The Management of Heterosexist Talk
This article criticizes current psychological work on `heterosexism', highlighting the way its operationalization tends to obscure flexible discursive practices and settle them into stable, causal attitudes within individuals. It studies extracts from a variety of sources where sexuality is made relevant (in describing someone as a `poof' or a `dyke', for example), and considers (a) how interactants attend to `heterosexism' in their talk and (b) …
Gatekeeping gender
Psychiatrists, like other medical professionals with a diagnosing or prescribing role, control access to a range of forms of treatment, medication and service that their patient, or their patient’s carer, may want access to. In this article, we explore psychiatrist-patient interactions in the distinctive institutional site of a UK NHS Gender Identity Clinic, where the psychiatrist’s gatekeeping role is renowned. We focus on some interactional fea…
What can conversation analysis contribute to feminist methodology? Putting reflexivity into practice
This article uses conversation analysis to explore an issue central to the design and delivery of feminist research: the relationship between researcher and researched, and specifically, the impact of the former on the latter. A guiding principle of much feminist research is that it should be respondent-centred, allowing participants to set the agenda and define what is important in their own terms. Though not advocated as an explicitly feminist …
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise
This article contributes to a social psychological understanding of identity by identifying some features of the interactional organization of self-praise. Early conversation analytic work on the epistemics of self-assessment and constraints against self-praise has shown that praising oneself is an interactionally delicate matter that may leave one vulnerable to “unfavorable character assessment” or accusations of bragging (Pomerantz 1978:89). Dr…
Sexist talk
This paper uses a discursive social psychological approach to develop and extend what we know about the constitution of sexist talk. Using data from a variety of sources where the topic under discussion is gender and leisure, I examine actual instances of sexism in action. Specifically, I examine the ways in which participants use arguments about possible injury to justify women's non-participation in certain sport and leisure activities. I ident…
Natural' and `contrived' data
Flirting
Flirting is typically regarded as an ambiguous social action, which, in the absence of members’ orientations, is subject to multiple interpretations and hard to pin down analytically. This article demonstrates a methodological technique for identifying the interactional practices that constitute vehicles for “possible flirting” by examining instances that contain (a) “endogenous” orientations to flirting, (b) orientations to flirting that are “ex…
Feminism and Conversation Analysis
Ever since the ‘turn to language’, feminist psychologists have been interested in pursuing social constructionist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic ideas in their analyses. However, there has been a corresponding reluctance to adopt a more technical, conversation analytic (CA) approach to feminist issues. This is primarily because of misgivings about CA’s political efficaciousness, practical utility and compatibility with feminist princi…
The Interactional Organization of the Gender Attribution Process
This article illustrates some interactional properties of the 'gender attribution process' - that is, the methodical procedures through which members come to identify others as male or female (Kessler and McKenna, 1978). Drawing on data from interviews and group discussions where respondents were asked to comment on a series of pictures containing gendered images, I explore instances where members have trouble identifying the gender of the person…
Hypothetical Questions
Hypothetical questions (HQs) are a special class of conditional question that seek a response by proposing a “what-if” situation. It is not clear to what extent view testing HQs represent a generic conversational device that operates in a similar way across contexts. I conduct a comparative analysis of HQs across four different interactional settings: ordinary conversations, research interactions, broadcast news interviews, and doctor–patient con…
Participants’ Orientations, Ideology and the Ontological Status of Hegemonic Masculinity
Talking about sex in the Gender Identity Clinic
This article provides the first systematic examination of the ways 'talk about sex' is occasioned and managed by doctors and patients in real-life interactions in a National Health Service Gender Identity Clinic. Drawing on a corpus of 194 recordings of psychiatric assessment sessions, the article examines how parties initiate and develop talk about sex, and which strategies appear to work best for doctor-patient alignment. The analyses revealed …
Methodology Needs Analytics
Responding to -isms
I discuss the contribution of the articles to existing literatures, and their implications for (1) our understanding of the analytic tractability of -isms, and (2) managing and challenging -isms
Reflecting on the Ethics and Politics of Collecting Interactional Data
Feminist Conversation Analysis
In this short response, I want to address what I see as four problematic claims in Pauline Whelan's article, “Oxymoronic and Sociologically Monstrous? Feminist Conversation Analysis,” in this issue
Transcending the `natural'/`contrived' distinction
Let’s Get Real? Feminism, Constructionism and the Realism/Relativism Debate
Child's time
Natural' and 'contrived' data
Feminism and Conversation Analysis
Ever since the ‘turn to language’, feminist psychologists have been interested in pursuing social constructionist, post-structuralist and discourse analytic ideas in their analyses. However, there has been a corresponding reluctance to adopt a more technical, conversation analytic (CA) approach to feminist issues. This is primarily because of misgivings about CA’s political efficaciousness, practical utility and compatibility with feminist princi…
Short Reviews
Let’s Get Real? Feminism, Constructionism and the Realism/Relativism Debate
The Management of Heterosexist Talk
This article criticizes current psychological work on `heterosexism', highlighting the way its operationalization tends to obscure flexible discursive practices and settle them into stable, causal attitudes within individuals. It studies extracts from a variety of sources where sexuality is made relevant (in describing someone as a `poof' or a `dyke', for example), and considers (a) how interactants attend to `heterosexism' in their talk and (b) …
Reconsidering the Concept of Hegemonic Masculinity
This article provides a critical review of Wetherell and Edley’s (1999) discursive reformulation of the concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’. While I retain some familiar features from Wetherell and Edley’s approach, I develop a discursive perspective that is located more firmly in the technical, conversation analytic tradition - as outlined in the recent exchange between Schegloff (1997, 1998) and Wetherell (1998). In particular, I argue that prev…
Participants’ Orientations, Ideology and the Ontological Status of Hegemonic Masculinity
Sports Media and Gender Inequality
What can conversation analysis contribute to feminist methodology? Putting reflexivity into practice
This article uses conversation analysis to explore an issue central to the design and delivery of feminist research: the relationship between researcher and researched, and specifically, the impact of the former on the latter. A guiding principle of much feminist research is that it should be respondent-centred, allowing participants to set the agenda and define what is important in their own terms. Though not advocated as an explicitly feminist …
Natural' and 'contrived' data
Transcending the natural/contirved distinction
Transcending the `natural'/`contrived' distinction
Natural' and `contrived' data
Sexist talk
This paper uses a discursive social psychological approach to develop and extend what we know about the constitution of sexist talk. Using data from a variety of sources where the topic under discussion is gender and leisure, I examine actual instances of sexism in action. Specifically, I examine the ways in which participants use arguments about possible injury to justify women's non-participation in certain sport and leisure activities. I ident…
Methodology Needs Analytics
From Ethics to Analytics
In discussions of sociological research based on the recording of interactional occasions, participants' awareness of the presence of recording devices is often deemed to have a detrimental effect on the 'authenticity' or 'naturalness' of the data collected. We propose an alternative approach to this issue by seeking to turn participants' observable orientations to the presence and relevance of recording devices into an analytic topic, and explor…
Gender Talk
Gender Talk provides a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology and conversation analysis to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of fine-grained, discursive methodologies. In particular, the book concentrates on discourse and conversation analysis, providing a full account of these methodologies through the detailed study of data from a variety of settings, in…
The Interactional Organization of the Gender Attribution Process
This article illustrates some interactional properties of the 'gender attribution process' - that is, the methodical procedures through which members come to identify others as male or female (Kessler and McKenna, 1978). Drawing on data from interviews and group discussions where respondents were asked to comment on a series of pictures containing gendered images, I explore instances where members have trouble identifying the gender of the person…
Gatekeeping gender
Psychiatrists, like other medical professionals with a diagnosing or prescribing role, control access to a range of forms of treatment, medication and service that their patient, or their patient’s carer, may want access to. In this article, we explore psychiatrist-patient interactions in the distinctive institutional site of a UK NHS Gender Identity Clinic, where the psychiatrist’s gatekeeping role is renowned. We focus on some interactional fea…
On Recruiting Conversation Analysis for Critical Realist Purposes
In this paper I provide a summary and evaluation of some of the key features of Sims-Schouten, Riley and Willig's multi-level, `critical realist' approach to discourse analysis, as exemplified in their study of motherhood, childcare and female employment. I argue that (i) their analyses recruit and depend on arguments and techniques from the very perspectives they criticize, and (ii) those techniques are deployed in a somewhat ad hoc fashion. Con…
Category Use in the Construction of Asylum Seekers
By looking at category use within the asylum debate, this paper investigates how participants construct 'asylum seekers'. Critical discursive psychology is used to study a corpus of public sphere data. Categorization is shown to be a powerful political and rhetorical strategy for participants in the asylum debate as they attempt to impose their own systems of classification onto the debate, and, in doing so, justify the (more or less) harsh treat…
Pursuing Views and Testing Commitments
This chapter, written by Susan Speer, considers the role of hypothetical questions (HQs) in interactions between psychiatrists and transsexual patients in a British gender identity clinic. The psychiatrists studied in this chapter perform a gatekeeping function vis‐à‐vis their transsexual patients in that they must diagnosis the patients as true transsexuals before the patients can receive publically funded sex reassignment surgery. Speers argues…
Feminist Conversation Analysis
In this short response, I want to address what I see as four problematic claims in Pauline Whelan's article, “Oxymoronic and Sociologically Monstrous? Feminist Conversation Analysis,” in this issue
Hypothetical Questions
Hypothetical questions (HQs) are a special class of conditional question that seek a response by proposing a “what-if” situation. It is not clear to what extent view testing HQs represent a generic conversational device that operates in a similar way across contexts. I conduct a comparative analysis of HQs across four different interactional settings: ordinary conversations, research interactions, broadcast news interviews, and doctor–patient con…
The Interactional Organization of Self-praise
This article contributes to a social psychological understanding of identity by identifying some features of the interactional organization of self-praise. Early conversation analytic work on the epistemics of self-assessment and constraints against self-praise has shown that praising oneself is an interactionally delicate matter that may leave one vulnerable to “unfavorable character assessment” or accusations of bragging (Pomerantz 1978:89). Dr…
Talking about sex in the Gender Identity Clinic
This article provides the first systematic examination of the ways 'talk about sex' is occasioned and managed by doctors and patients in real-life interactions in a National Health Service Gender Identity Clinic. Drawing on a corpus of 194 recordings of psychiatric assessment sessions, the article examines how parties initiate and develop talk about sex, and which strategies appear to work best for doctor-patient alignment. The analyses revealed …
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