Abstract
This article emerges from qualitative and empowering research from 1997, 2000 and 2001 in which traditional gender differences became visible during the collection of data: in interviews with double gender focus groups the boys were the active and talkative, while the girls in general kept quiet. Based on linguistic theories, for instance those of Deborah Tannen (1992), this article discusses psychological differences in talkative behaviour in the different genders and the consequences of this in public life, academia, as well as in relation to research methodologies. In relating diverse stories about both traditional hierarchic “smooth stories” of research and newly emergent traits of subversion or neutralization of hierarchies, the author asks: “What binaries structure my arguments? What hierarchies are at play?” Her hope is that we will eventually be able to challenge the basis of the social representations that keep the unconscious system of gender binaries running in research.
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