Ethnologue a Marier: La  Neutralisation  des Attributs Sexues en Entreprise (Essay) Ethnologue a Marier: La  Neutralisation  des Attributs Sexues en Entreprise (Essay)

Ethnologue a Marier: La Neutralisation des Attributs Sexues en Entreprise (Essay‪)‬

Ethnologies 2007, Spring-Fall, 29, 1-2

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Dans le cadre d'une recherche dans une fonderie en Roumanie sur la transition economique et politique du pays dans l'apres-Ceausescu, menee en occupant un poste de travail, l'auteure montre comment une integration fondee sur les representations de genre et de parente symbolique peut nuire au bon deroulement de l'enquete. L'ethnographe choisit alors de neutraliser son genre afin de deplacer son role et les attentes des informateurs pour construire son objet et mener sa recherche. En adoptant les signes exterieurs de la masculinite, l'auteure a inverse les perceptions sexuees de son sexe biologique. A la fin de son sejour, elle n'etait plus qu' un ethnologue, c'est-a-dire une personne sans genre bien defini. C'est ainsi que l'auteure a pu deplacer les enjeux peripheriques et perturbateurs de sa presence sur le terrain et se consacrer pleinement a l'etude du fonctionnement reel de l'entreprise. L'article propose donc un exemple concret de neutralisation de genre par l'ethnologue lui-meme et il evoque egalement les effets de cette transformation sur le cadre d'enquete. Within the context of research in a foundry in Romania and the nation's economic and political transformation after Ceausescu, which was conducted by being an employee, the author shows how an approach based upon concepts of gender and symbolic kinship can hinder the course of the investigation. The ethnographer then chooses to "neutralise" her gender in order to displace her role and her informants' expectations about the construction of her object and the undertaking of her research. By adopting external signifiers of masculinity, the author reversed the gendered perceptions of her sex. By the end of her stay, she was no more than a "neutered" ethnologist, a person without a well-defined gender. In this manner the author could displace the peripheral and disruptive consequences of her presence in the field and devote herself fully to the study of the real operation of the company. The article thus proposes a concrete example of the "neutralisation" of gender by the ethnologist herself and draws attention to the effects of this transformation on the context of inquiry.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2007
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
18
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
189.6
KB
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