Living with Patriarchy
Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures
Editors
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, depending on the meanings ascribed to the notion by people in public and private spaces. The central question of the volume, which is addressed through a variety of data, different discourse analytical approaches and research methodologies, is: How is gender constructed in social life and in patriarchal systems through discourse in different parts of the world?
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] 2011. vi, 307 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Gender imbalances revisited: IntroductionDanijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen | pp. 1–13
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Part I. Patriarchy and emancipation in private spaces
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“He beat her so hard she fell head over heels”: Normalising wife abuse in ColombiaLaura Tolton | pp. 17–48
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The discursive construction of gender among Dholuo speakers in KenyaMichael O. Abudi, Felicia Yieke Arudo and Catherine W. Kitetu | pp. 49–67
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Snippa – a new word for girls’ genitals in Swedish: Gender-neutral or patriarchal?Karin Milles | pp. 69–80
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What it means to be a Bosnian woman: Analyzing women’s talk between patriarchy and emancipationDanijela Majstorović and Maja Mandic | pp. 81–109
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Part II. Mediating gender in public spaces
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Greek men’s and women’s magazines as codes of gender conduct: The appropriation and hybridisation of deontic discoursesOurania Hatzidaki | pp. 113–144
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Representation of desire and femininity: The advertisement in late-modern consumer culture of JapanToyoko Sato | pp. 145–167
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Gendered discourse(s): Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ vs. George WeahGrace Diabah | pp. 169–194
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Gender ideologies in the Vietnamese printed mediaNguyen Thi Thu Ha | pp. 195–216
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Part III. Trajectories of patriarchy and emancipation across professions
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Constructing masculine work identity through narrative: Two case studies from emergency medicine in QuebecStella Advani | pp. 219–247
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Stereotyping gender: Discursive constructions of social identities in a Danish bankInger Lassen | pp. 249–271
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Living in therapeutic culture: Feminine discourse as an agent of changeJoanna Pawelczyk and Eva-Maria Graf | pp. 273–302
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Index | pp. 303–307
“At a time when widespread public discourses about gender would have us believe that sexism and gender inequality are outmoded concepts today, this book powerfully testifies to their continued prevalence in contemporary societies. Based on an impressive diversity of national, cultural, and institutional contexts, Majstorovic and Lassen convincingly demonstrate that alongside the achievement of social progress for women, deep-seated patriarchal ideologies persist perniciously in a variety of forms, discursively and non-discursively, locally and globally.”
Michelle M. Lazar, National University of Singapore
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Living with Patriarchy is an exceptional rethinking of gender issues in the light of new data. Both challenging and masterful, the book offers bold and expansive ways of interrogating patriarchy with new voices, thus enriching our understanding of gender as an analytical category and refreshing our methodologies and research processes in the field. An important and suggestive addition to the literature on gender issues.”
Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fez, Morocco
“It is by boldly exposing and unapologetically admitting the continued presence of patriarchy in the contemporary context that this book realizes its subversive potential. Moreover, with richer, wider and more current data, it (as a whole) strives to trace a trajectory of hope: starting by tracking persistent remnants of patriarchy and ending with evolving emancipatory spaces that advance research on and realities of gender discourse/s – within and perhaps beyond patriarchy.”
Neslie Carol Tan, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippine, in Discourse Studies, Vol. 15(5), 2013, pages 658-660
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General