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Living with patriarchy : discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures / edited by Danijela Majstorović, Inger Lassen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 45.
- Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture (DAPSAC) ; v. 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Gender.
- Language and languages.
- Language and languages--Sex differences.
- Code switching (Linguistics).
- Language and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Within these different geographical contexts, a broadly defined notion of culture incorporates organizational cultures, subcultures of society, cultures of clans or tribes as well as national cultures, dependi
- Contents:
- Living with Patriarchy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Gender imbalances revisited; Part I. Patriarchy and emancipation in private spaces; The discursive construction of gender among Dholuo speakers in Kenya; What it means to be a Bosnian woman; Part II. Mediating gender in public spaces; Representation of desire and femininity; Gendered discourses; Gender ideologies in the Vietnamese printed media; Part III. Trajectories of patriarchy and emancipation across professions; Constructing masculine work identity through narrative; Stereotyping gender
- Living in therapeutic cultureIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613314697
- 9781283314695
- 128331469X
- 9789027283948
- 902728394X
- OCLC:
- 758334094
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