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I KNIT THEREFORE I AM: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF KNITTING AS CONSTITUTIVE OF GENDERED IDENTITY

Medford, Kristina M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1142277388

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Communication Studies.
This study examines the ways in which gender is constituted through everyday performances, with a specific focus on knitting. Because knitting has a feminine connotation in the United States, female and male knitters have much different experiences when engaging in this activity and as such, knitting influences the ways that they negotiate their performance of gender in varying ways. Through the theoretical lenses of ethnomethodology and critical gender and communication research, I use autoethnography to investigate my own experience with knitting as a gendering activity; I also use in-depth interviewing to gain insight from five male knitters about how they understand knitting in ways that reify and resist cultural norms. The study suggests that gender performance is a constant negotiation to establish believability or proficiency as masculine/feminine, rather than a static performance that either meets or does not meet the cultural norm of masculine/feminine. The study also offers insight into the often overlooked ways that we transgress gendered norms in our everyday lives.
John Warren (Advisor)
114 p.
gender and communication; ethnomethodology; autoethnography; knitting

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  • Medford, K. M. (2006). I KNIT THEREFORE I AM: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF KNITTING AS CONSTITUTIVE OF GENDERED IDENTITY [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1142277388

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Medford, Kristina. I KNIT THEREFORE I AM: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF KNITTING AS CONSTITUTIVE OF GENDERED IDENTITY. 2006. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1142277388.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Medford, Kristina. "I KNIT THEREFORE I AM: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF KNITTING AS CONSTITUTIVE OF GENDERED IDENTITY." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1142277388

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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