Idéologies de genre et construction des savoirs en sciences phonétiques
This article exposes how knowledge construction in phonetic sciences is influenced by gender ideologies. The idea that the production of knowledge is a neutral act is deconstructed and it is instead demonstrated that scientific knowledge is situated knowledge and thus shaped by specific assumptions...
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2016-11-01
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| description | This article exposes how knowledge construction in phonetic sciences is influenced by gender ideologies. The idea that the production of knowledge is a neutral act is deconstructed and it is instead demonstrated that scientific knowledge is situated knowledge and thus shaped by specific assumptions about gender. In phonetic literature, the body is omnipresent. In descriptions of how human sounds are produced, the body of the speaker is frequently represented by a male body. For example, the human vocal tract is frequently defined as being 17 or 17,5 cm long. This is not the average length of human vocal tracts but the average length of male vocal tracts as measured in early studies. As a consequence of the confusion between human and male, the male body becomes the norm, and the female body becomes specific, marked, and eventually pathologized. This is the case, for instance, in the literature about Premenstrual Vocal Syndrome, where different physiological phenomena accompanying the female cyclicity are being described as “symptoms” of a “syndrome”. Gender binarism is the third ideology we’ll analyse. Phonetic literature produces the idea of gender binary in the very way research questions and hypotheses are formulated and experimental protocols designed. For example, in phonetic texts, the expression “opposite gender/sex” appears frequently, and the human vocal apparatus is systematically described as sexually dimorphic. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3b78d19263734d6aae7bd9b65aa0cc782025-01-30T10:37:45ZfraAssociation Genres, sexualités, langageGlad!2551-08192016-11-01110.4000/glad.117Idéologies de genre et construction des savoirs en sciences phonétiquesAron ArnoldThis article exposes how knowledge construction in phonetic sciences is influenced by gender ideologies. The idea that the production of knowledge is a neutral act is deconstructed and it is instead demonstrated that scientific knowledge is situated knowledge and thus shaped by specific assumptions about gender. In phonetic literature, the body is omnipresent. In descriptions of how human sounds are produced, the body of the speaker is frequently represented by a male body. For example, the human vocal tract is frequently defined as being 17 or 17,5 cm long. This is not the average length of human vocal tracts but the average length of male vocal tracts as measured in early studies. As a consequence of the confusion between human and male, the male body becomes the norm, and the female body becomes specific, marked, and eventually pathologized. This is the case, for instance, in the literature about Premenstrual Vocal Syndrome, where different physiological phenomena accompanying the female cyclicity are being described as “symptoms” of a “syndrome”. Gender binarism is the third ideology we’ll analyse. Phonetic literature produces the idea of gender binary in the very way research questions and hypotheses are formulated and experimental protocols designed. For example, in phonetic texts, the expression “opposite gender/sex” appears frequently, and the human vocal apparatus is systematically described as sexually dimorphic.https://journals.openedition.org/glad/117feminist epistemologygenderideologyphoneticsscientific knowledges |
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| title | Idéologies de genre et construction des savoirs en sciences phonétiques |
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| title_short | Idéologies de genre et construction des savoirs en sciences phonétiques |
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