Gender identity and discourse analysis / edited by Lia Litosseliti, Jane Sunderland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Litosseliti, Lia.

Sunderland, Jane.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 2.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

vii,335 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different chapters together illustrate how taking a discourse perspective facilitates understanding of the complex and subtle ways in which gender is represented, constructed and contested through language. The book engages critically with long-running and on-going debates, but also reflects and develops current understandings of gender, identity and discourse, particularly the shift from 'gender differences' to the discoursal shaping of gender. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis thus offers not only insights and methodologies of new empirical studies but also careful theorisations, in particular of discourse, text, identity and gender. The collection is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the area of gender and discourse.

Contents:

Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Gender identity and discourse analysis

Theorising Gender and Discourse

Chapter 2: Yes, but is it gender?

Chapter 3: Rethinking politeness, impoliteness and gender identity

Chapter 4: Stunning, shimmering, iridescent

Discourse and Gendered Identities in the Media

Chapter 5: Consuming personal relationships

Chapter 6 'Head to head'

Chapter 7: Is there anything "new" about these lads?

Discourse, Sexuality and Gender Identities

Chapter 8: The case of the indefinite pronoun

Chapter 9: Erotic discourse strategies in powerless women

Discourse and Gender Identities in Education

Chapter 10: From representation towards discursive practices

Chapter 11: 'What's the hottest part of the Sun? Page 3!'

Gendered Discourses of Parenthood

Chapter 12: Pregnant self and lost identity in Ana Blandiana's 'Children's Crusade'

Chapter 13: Baby entertainer, bumbling assistant and line manager

Subject index

Name index

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612254598

9781282254596

1282254596

9780585463711

0585463719

9789027297693

902729769X

OCLC:

732804667