Constructing gendered identities: the rhetorics of gender in the ngo's volunteers' talk about sex trafficking

Abstract

This study examines the construction of gendered identities in Greek NGOs volunteers’ interview talk about sex trafficking. The study adopts a social psychological perspective and combines elements from critical discursive social psychology and recent feminist post-structuralist theory. More specifically the key analytical tools of the study’s methodology are the concepts of interpretative repertoires and ideological dilemmas (Potter and Wetherell, 1987, Wetherell, 1998, Billig, Condor, Edwards, Gene, Middleton, and Radley, 1988). The analysis stresses the link between the social construction of gender with sex trafficking. Gender is an object of negotiation in the volunteers’ talk about sex trafficking and is related with specific ideological positions and dilemmas that are going to be the product of analysis.The study consists of 32 semi structured interviews with volunteers working for NGOs in Greece. The NGOs were classified in four categories according to their profile. Those cate ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/38379
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/38379
ND
38379
Alternative title
Κατασκευάζοντας έμφυλες ταυτότητες: η ρητορική του φύλλου στο λόγο εργαζομένων σε μη κυβερνητικές οργανώσεις για τη διακίνηση και εμπορία γυναικών
Author
Maki, Kostoula (Father's name: Georgios)
Date
2014
Degree Grantor
University of Ioannina
Committee members
Μποζατζής Νίκος
Μαραγκουδάκη Ελένη
Σταυρακάκης Γιάννης
Δραγώνα Θάλεια
Αθανασιάδου Χριστίνα
Φίγγου Ευαγγελία
Χρηστάκης Νικόλας
Discipline
Social SciencesPsychology and Cognitive Sciences
Social SciencesPolitical Science
Keywords
Sex trafficking; Discourse analysis; Discursive psychology; Social psychology; Gendered indentities; Gender
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
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