Celia Kitzinger

Celia Kitzinger

MA (Oxon), PhD (Reading)

 

Celia Kitzinger

Email:cck1@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 432635
Ext: 2635
Office: W/232

 

 

Research interests

Conversation analysis - the analysis of human communication and interaction, especially research exploring basic resources and structures (e.g. preference organisation, person reference)

Childbirth issues - especially in relation to decision-making around home birth, counselling for women with post-traumatic stress disorder after childbirth, and services for women with symphysis pubis dysfunction.

Help-lines and counselling interactions - analysis of naturally-occurring data using conversation analysis with a special interest in giving feedback (e.g. training workshops) to help-providers to assist them in improving their service

Feminism - research focussed on understanding and challenging the production and reproduction of gendered - and other - inequalities

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex issues - especially interactional research and the exploration of heteronormativity in action

Publications

Kitzinger, Celia (2007). Is 'woman' always relevantly gendered? Gender and Language 1(1): 39:40

Kitzinger, C. and Kitzinger, S. (2007). Birth trauma: Talking with women and the value of conversation analysis, British Journal of Midwifery 15(5): 256-264.

Lerner, G. and Kitzinger, C. (2007). Extraction and Aggregation in the Repair of Individual and Collective Self-Reference, Discourse Studies 9(4) 427-432.

Wilkinson, Sue and Kitzinger, Celia (2006). Surprise as an interactional achievement: Reaction tokens in conversation. Social Psychology Quarterly, 69(2).

Kitzinger, Celia (2005) Heteronormativity in action: Reproducing the heterosexual nuclear family in 'after hours' medical calls, Social Problems, 52(4). Special Section:Language Interaction and Social Problems, 477-498.

Kitzinger, Celia. (2005) Speaking as a heterosexual: (How) does sexuality matter for talk-in-interaction, Research on Language and Social Interaction 38(3): 221-265.

Land, Victoria and Kitzinger, Celia (2005) Speaking as a Lesbian: Correcting the Heterosexist Presumption, Research on Language and Social Interaction. 38(4):371-416.

Shaw, Rebecca and Kitzinger, Celia (2005) 'Calls to a home birth helpline: Empowerment in childbirth', Social Science and Medicine, 61:2374-2383.

Kitzinger, Celia (2004) The myth of the two biological sexes. The Psychologist. 17(8): 451-454.

Kitzinger, Celia and Wilkinson, Sue (2004) Social advocacy for equal marriage: The politics of 'rights' and the psychology of 'mental health'. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 4(1): 173-194.

Kitzinger, Celia (2000) Doing feminist conversation analysis, Feminism & Psychology, 10: 163-193.

Biography

Celia Kitzinger is Director of the Feminist Conversation Analysis Unit. She joined the Department at York in 2000 after a year as Visiting Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has a long-standing research interest in sex and gender and, over the last few years, has moved from a broadly 'discursive' style of analysis to a distinctively conversation analytic approach.She continues to sustain and develop a clearly lesbian and feminist research agenda while also contributing to the analysis of talk-in-interaction.  She has published nine books and around 80 articles and chapters on issues related to genders, sexualities, and language. She is also a Chartered Psychologist, and has been elected Fellow of both the American Psychological Association (2000) and the British Psychological Society (1997) for "ground-breaking contributions to understanding of women's sexuality... outstanding scholarship and original thinking" (BPS citation). Celia Kitzinger is associate editor of Feminism & Psychology, she has supervised many research students on topics including: the social construction of the vagina, lesbian and gay parenting, heterosexual feminism, lesbian and gay human rights, sexual refusal, and diversity training. She is currently writing a book on feminism and conversation analysis, and analysing counselling calls with women in crisis after giving birth. In August 2003, when same-sex marriage became legal in British Columbia, Canada, she married her long-term partner, Sue Wilkinson. With the support of Liberty (the national civil liberties association), who are providing legal representation) and OutRage! (the national lesbian and gay campaigning group), Celia and Sue sought a statutory declaration of the validity of their marriage in the UK. They lost their High Court case and their valid Canadian marriage is not recognised as a marriage in the UK. More information available from http://www.equalmarriagerights.org/

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