“Hey, You Stylized Woman There”: An Uncomfortable Reflexive Account of Performative Practices in the Field

TY - JOUR

T1 - “Hey, You Stylized Woman There”

T2 - An Uncomfortable Reflexive Account of Performative Practices in the Field

AU - Dosekun, Simidele

PY - 2015/6/9

Y1 - 2015/6/9

N2 - This article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call “hyper-feminine style.” It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler’s theoretical notions of “excitable discourse” and “performative interpellation” for poststructuralist reflexive practice, concerning as they do the unpredictable political and ontological effects of what one says and does.

AB - This article presents an uncomfortable reflexive account of a feminist poststructuralist research project on young women in Lagos, Nigeria who dress in what I call “hyper-feminine style.” It reflects on the messy processes by which I framed the research and recruited participants, and considers how the women who did or did not eventually take part exercised agency to resist the terms of my address. The article illustrates the usefulness of Butler’s theoretical notions of “excitable discourse” and “performative interpellation” for poststructuralist reflexive practice, concerning as they do the unpredictable political and ontological effects of what one says and does.

KW - hyper-femininity

KW - interpellation

KW - performativity

KW - reflexivity

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930709417&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1077800415569788

DO - 10.1177/1077800415569788

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84930709417

SN - 1077-8004

VL - 21

SP - 436

EP - 444

JO - QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

JF - QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

IS - 5

ER -