Response to Leap, Junge, Peterson and Provencher
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v4i2.323Keywords:
homophobia, interpellation, hate speech, Butler, HabermasAbstract
This article forms a response to the previous four articles which address homophobia and Leap’s notion of a homophobic formation. The article finds that although there are no formal properties which identify a homophobic text, there are several key properties which they share. They conform to many of the characteristics of hate speech in their appropriation of the naming process and imputation of metaphors of deviancy, there is an intention to defame and shame, and there is a clear tension with the discourse of civil rights. We argue that the purpose of the homophobic speech act can be derailed by discursive intervention, and (following Habermas), exposure of the non-validity of its claims.
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Foucault, michel (1972) The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. new york: pantheon.
Halberstam, Judith (1998) Female Masculinity. durham, nc: duke university press.
Hennessy, rosemary (2000) Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism. new york: routledge.
Hill, dave (1994) patriot games. The Guardian: Weekend. 4 June 1994: 25–31
Kulick, don (2000) Gay and lesbian language. Annual Review of Anthropology 29: 243–285.
Leap, william (1996) Word’s Out: Gay Men’s English. minneapolis: university of minnesota press.
Love, heather (2007) Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. cambridge: ma. harvard university press.
Mackinnon, catherine (1993) Only Words. cambridge, ma: harvard university press
Morrish, liz and leap, william (2007) sex talk: language, desire, identity and beyond. in helen sauntson and sakis kyratzis (eds). Language, Desires and Sexualities: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. basingstoke: palgrave, pp. 17–40.
Morrish, liz and sauntson, helen (2007) New Perspectives on Language and Sexual Identity. basingstoke: palgrave.
Morrish, elizabeth (1997) ‘Falling short of God’s ideal’: public discourse about lesbians and gays. in livia, anna. and hall, kira (eds). Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, And Sexuality. oxford: oxford university press, pp. 335–345.
Muir, Janette k. (1995) hating for life. in whillock, rita k. and hayden, david (eds). Hate Speech. london: sage, pp.163–195.
Sedgwick, eve k. (1993) Queer performativity: henry James’s ‘The art of The novel’. GLQ 1 (1): 1–16.
Published
2011-07-20
Issue
Section
Responses
How to Cite
Morrish, E. (2011). Response to Leap, Junge, Peterson and Provencher. Gender and Language, 4(2), 323-335. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v4i2.323
