corinne monet- gender roles in conversation- english translation
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Corinne Monet's essay on gender roles in conversation is a classic in French anarchist and feminist circles. Using a range of references, Monet charts the expanding study of how women and men communicate in every day conversation. The original article, "La Repartitation des taches entre les femmes et les hommes dans le travail de la conversation," was printed in Nouvelles Questions Feminines, vol 19, 1998.TRANSCRIPT
Corrine Monet’s essay on gender roles in
conversation is a classic in French
anarchist and feminist circles. Using a
range of references, Monet charts the
expanding study of how women and men
communicate in everyday conversations.
The original title of the essay seems at
first puzzling and intriguing: The
distribution of tasks between women and men
in the work of conversation. This refers to
Monet’s final thesis that for communication
between the genders to flow requires work
on the part of women participants; a form of
work as invisible today as domestic work a
century ago.
Gender Roles
in
Conversation
Corinne