Doing Bodies: Ethnomethodology, Gender Accountability, and the Problem of Going Flat

• In Event: Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Section Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 1: Theory, Methods, and the Body

Abstract

This paper argues that moments of bodily transformation make visible how gendered embodiment is not possessed but interactionally accomplished, and that revisiting Candace West and Don Zimmerman’s ethnomethodological concept of “doing gender” reveals how recognizable bodies are continuously produced through practices of accountability that render some post-cancer embodiments intelligible and others in need of explanation.

Authors

• Beth Gaines, University of South Florida

• S. L. Crawley, University of South Florida