In Cameron’s words (1992:13), it encourages
a different focus: “not gender differences but the difference gender makes.” Eckert & McConnell-Ginet (1992:466) point out that, rather than emphasizing gender differences that result from differing patterns of early socialization, gender
researchers can more fruitfully focus on “people’s active engagement in the reproduction of or resistance to gender arrangements in their communities.” Instead of abstracting gender from social practice, they note the need to focus on
“gender in its full complexity: how gender is constructed in social practice, and
how this construction intertwines with that of other components of identity and
difference, and of language” (472). The concept of CofP, they suggest, offers a
fruitful way forward. In the present collection, Eckert & McConnell-Ginet pursue these points further, illustrating ways in which the concept has proved useful
in their own research. Similarly, Bergvall examines the broader implications of
the CofP for theory and methodology in language and gender research.
In Cameron’s words (1992:13), it encourages
a different focus: “not gender differences but the difference gender makes.” Eckert & McConnell-Ginet (1992:466) point out that, rather than emphasizing gender differences that result from differing patterns of early socialization, gender
researchers can more fruitfully focus on “people’s active engagement in the reproduction of or resistance to gender arrangements in their communities.” Instead of abstracting gender from social practice, they note the need to focus on
“gender in its full complexity: how gender is constructed in social practice, and
how this construction intertwines with that of other components of identity and
difference, and of language” (472). The concept of CofP, they suggest, offers a
fruitful way forward. In the present collection, Eckert & McConnell-Ginet pursue these points further, illustrating ways in which the concept has proved useful
in their own research. Similarly, Bergvall examines the broader implications of
the CofP for theory and methodology in language and gender research.
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