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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sara MillsPublisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd Imprint: Equinox Publishing Ltd Weight: 2.286kg ISBN: 9781845534950ISBN 10: 1845534956 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 23 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsGender Matters 1. Introduction: Why gender matters Section 1: Gender and reading/writing 2. Gender and reading 'Gendering the reader' 3.. Analysing women's writing 'The Gendered sentence' Section 2: Analysing sexism 4. Sexism and Poetry 'Knowing y/our place: feminist contextualised stylistics' 5. Post-feminist text analysis 'Postfeminist text analysis' 6. Transitivity analysis 'Close encounters of a feminist kind: Transitivity and pop lyrics' 7. Third wave feminist text analysis 'Third wave feminism and the analysis of sexism' 8. Feminism and naming 'Caught between anti-sexism, sexism and 'political correctness' Section 3: Gender and politeness 9. 'Gender and politeness' 10.'Gender and impoliteness' 11. 'Class, Gender and politeness' Section 4 : Strong women speakers 12. 'Discourse competence; or how to theorise strong women speakers' 13.'Gender and performance anxiety' 14. ConclusionsReviewsSara Mills is one of the pre-eminent contemporary feminist linguists, and this volume allows the reader to appreciate the breadth and depth of topics and range of methods she has employed in her work over a quarter of a century of scholarship. Journal of Language and Politics This book is a good reference for faculty and students in the field of language and gender and for anyone interested in the relation between language and gender. Discourse Studies Gender Matters is a useful survey of some of the key debates in feminist linguistics that will be of interest to students of both linguistics and literary studies, and is a refreshing alternative to the traditional 'dominance; difference; dynamic/diversity' themes usually imposed on accounts of language and gender research. Gender and Language Author InformationSara Mills is Sara Mills is a Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University. Her most recent publications include Gender and Colonial Space (2005, Manchester University Press), Michel Foucault (Critical Thinkers Series, 2003, Routledge), Feminist Post-Colonial Theory: An Anthology (edited with Reina Lewis, 2003, Edinburgh University Press) and Gender and Politeness (2003, Cambridge University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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