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<DIV><FONT size=2>Dear Flingsters,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>A query from a long-time but lately 'passive' list
member, a feminist sociologist of UK origin researching Bolivian doctors'
changing discourses concerning abortion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I've been analysing the transcript of a hospital
meeting between a male gynaecologist, his female boss, a female nurse
and myself. In the initial part of the meeting there was a fairly tense
exchange - with the first two speakers as main protagonists - in
which normative arguments concerning postabortion care were effectively
challenged with recourse to technical justifications. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>After this, 'repair' of this threat to the norms took
place, with the four of us colluding to restore a spirit of
constructive contribution to humanisation of care provided (also an
official agenda). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Language used by all in the initial 'conflict' discussion
tended to be formal, assertive, categorical, impersonal
features characterised as stereotypically 'masculine'. In the<FONT size=2>
later 'consensus' exchange, </FONT>we all adopted a more informal, tentative,
adjectival and personalised style of expression - which could be characterised
as 'feminine'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I don't want to get fixed into binaries, or into
how men and women as such might talk differently. My interest is
in the differential use and value attributed by any and all speakers
(including myself) to certain gendered linguistic styles.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Please can you help me with references? Any available on
Internet or in electronic versions I could access by e-mail would be especially
appreciated, since I don't have access to adequate libraries here in Bolivia.
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks and greetings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Susanna</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Susanna Rance<BR><<A
href="mailto:srance@ceibo.entelnet.bo">srance@ceibo.entelnet.bo</A>><BR>Fax
(591-2) 485621<BR>Tel. (591-2) 484060<BR>Cel. 015-43970<BR>Casilla 10640 <BR>La
Paz, Bolivia</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>