Overview

Gender Matters presents a feminist linguistic analysis of texts - literature, media and lyrics - and conversation. It explores how gender relates to and shapes our understanding of sexism, reading and writing, politeness and public speaking. The essays in the book examine a range of questions: why is it necessary for feminists to analyse or comment on sexism when sexism is widely regarded as an anachronistic concern? How can feminists describe the effect of gender on the experience of literature? Why are women conA--sidered more capable of private rather than public speech? What is the relation between gender and politeness and are women more polite than men? In analysing these themes, Gender Matters highlights the insights and strengths of both second and third wave feminist analysis for linguistics.

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Author:   Sara Mills
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Weight:   2.286kg
ISBN:  

9781845534950

ISBN 10:   1845534956
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   23 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Gender 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. Conclusions

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Sara 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 Information

Sara 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).

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