ISBN:
9780415913980
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (525 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Articulated : Language and the Socially Constructed Self
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of "men's language," the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Twenty Years after Language and Woman's Place; Part One Mechanisms of Hegemony and Control; 1 Cries and Whispers: The Shattering of the Silence; 2 Pregnant Pauses: Silence and Authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings; 3 "This Discussion Is Going Too Far!": Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet; 4 The "Father Knows Best" Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Managing the Body of Labor: The Treatment of Reproduction and Sexuality in a Therapeutic Institution6 A Synthetic Sisterhood: False Friends in a Teenage Magazine; Part Two Agency through Appropriation; 7 Language, Gender, and Power: An Anthropological Review; 8 Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines; 9 Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities: Female and Male Police Officers Handling Domestic Violence; 10 "I Ought to Throw a Buick At You": Fictional Representations of Butch / Femme Speech; 11 Bitches and Skankly Hobags: The Place of Women in Contemporary Slang
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12 "Tasteless" Japanese: Less "Feminine" Speech Among Young Japanese WomenPart Three Contingent Practices and Emergent Selves; 13 "Are You With Me?": Power and Solidarity in the Discourse of African American Women; 14 From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the Linguistic Reshaping of Ethnic Identity; 15 "Nobody Is Talking Bad": Creating Community and Claiming Power on the Production Lines; 16 Reproducing the Discourse of Mothering: How Gendered Talk Makes Gendered Lives; 17 Sometimes Spanish, Sometimes English: Language Use among Rural New Mexican Chicanas
Description / Table of Contents:
18 The Writing on the Wall: A Border Case of Race and Gender19 Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High; About the Authors;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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