Innovations and challenges : women, language and sexism /

"Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection of internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. The topic of gender and language has evolved tremendously in the last de...

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Main Author: Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language, Discourse and Gender Violence. Women, language, and public discourse: five decades of sexism and scrutiny / Alice F. Freed
  • Gender respect gap / Deborah Cameron
  • The transgressive, the traditional: sexist discourses of grandmothering and ageing / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Rosamund Moon
  • Disco divas and heroic knights: a critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in "Create the World" LEGO cards / Jai Mackenzie, Laura Coffey-Glover, Sophie Payne, Mark McGlashan
  • Sexual harassment as reported by the Brazilian press: ambivalent and contradictory framings / Branca Telles Ribeiro and Liliana Cabral Bastos
  • Sexism and Institutional Discourses. 'Until I got a man in he wouldn't listen': evidence for the gender order in New Zealand workplaces / Janet Holme
  • Sexism and mediatized recontextualizations: the case of a battered woman who killed / Sibley Slinkard and Susan Ehrlich
  • The Discourse of (re)exploitation: female victims in the legal system / Nicci Macleod
  • Language-based discrimination in schools: intersections of gender and sexuality / Helen Sauntson.