Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis: 2 (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902722692X ISBN 13: 9789027226921

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis

This is a collection of work by researchers in the area of gender and language. It illustrates how a discourse approach to the study of gender and language can facilitate the study of the complex and often subtle ways in which gender identities are represented, constructed and contested through language. The focus of the book is on the notion of continuous construction of a range of masculine and feminine identities within and across individuals of the same biological sex. The collection thus reflects the shift from "differences" to discourse and the associated discoursal shaping of gendered identities and relations. Where gender difference is explored, this is done with a view to challenging existing "givens" and the generalizability of empirical findings.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 902722692X
• ISBN 13: 9789027226921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Litosseliti Lia, Sunderland Jane