Gendered Patterns of Interaction: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Couple Therapy

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• 作者：Olga Sutherland ; Andrea LaMarre ; Carla Rice ; Laura Hardt…
• 关键词：Gender ; Power ; Patterns of interaction ; Foucauldian discourse analysis ; Intersectionality
• 刊名：Contemporary Family Therapy
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：38
• 期：4
• 页码：385-399
• 全文大小：598 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Social Sciences
  Health Psychology
  Psychiatry
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3335
• 卷排序：38

文摘

In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in attention to gender and gender-based inequalities in family therapy. Despite this, there is a dearth of empirical work that examines how gendered inequalities intersecting with other axes of privilege/oppression are maintained within families, including in the therapeutic context. In this study, we used Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine how gendered power is produced and reproduced circularly or through recurrent patterns of interaction in couple therapy. We identified gendered discourses and assumptions informing partners’ constructions of their gendered selves and relationships. We highlight the complexity and intersectionality of gendered subjectivities and relations in contemporary Canadian couples involved in heterosexual relationships. Although women in this study contest their oppression and exhibit agency to negotiate who they are in general and in relation to men, they simultaneously continue to occupy subordinate positions in a gender order that is culturally and interactionally allocated to them. We discuss implications for family therapy practice.