I don't mean to be a dick, but

Paralipsis, affective excess, and the reproduction of sexual hierarchies in university classrooms

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3089634
AutoresAudrey C Cooper (0000-0003-1407-2710, Gallaudet University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume7
Fascículo1
Páginas77-104
Data de publicação2018-02-22
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.17012.coo
OpenAlexW2792975984
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas58

This article explores the significance of paralipsis to analyses of affect and sociopolitical formation. Taking attested utterances from undergraduate anthropology courses as a point of departure, I examine how one White and female-identified student engaged in a sexualized form of paralipsis to claim distance from her own negative construal of the object-category "girls [that brag about community service]." Deploying what I termdick-rhetoric, in combination with strong affect and assertions of ideological common-sense, this student's performance was effective at garnering stance ratification and "uptake" from classmates (Jaffe 2009), and facilitating the reproduction of gender and sexual hierarchies. Drawing onBrowne's (2015)examination of denied racial subjectivity or "dark matter," I argue that "dick matter" renders genderism and sexual objectification acceptable in university classrooms (among regimes, e.g., racial) - particularly for settings where professors do not engage students in critical exploration of dominant hierarchies and normalization processes. Discussion emphasizes the salience of engaging (ourselves and) students in examination of uses of paralipsis and dick-rhetoric for addressing gender and sexual inequalities

Affect (linguistics · Epistemology · Ideology · Lesbian · Linguistics · Objectification · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Salience (neuroscience · Sociology · Subjectivity · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology