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VULNERABILITY AND DANGEROUSNESS

The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence

JOCELYN A. HOLLANDER

University of Oregon

In this article, the author argues that beliefs about vulnerability and dangerousness are central to conceptions of gender and are constructed and transmitted through conversation. Using data from 13 focus groups, the author demonstrates that ideas about gender and its relationship to vulnerability and danger are pervasive in talk about violence, and that this talk is further marked by ideas about age, race, social class, and sexual identity. These ideas are based, in part, on shared beliefs about human bodies, which reinforce the perceived naturalness (and therefore the invisibility) of these ideas. The article concludes with a discussion of the consequences of these ideas for the daily lives of women and men.

Gender & Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, 83-109 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/089124301015001005
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