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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781978603321

Titolo

Living with patriarchy [[electronic resource] ] : discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures / / edited by Danijela Majstorović, Inger Lassen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-31469-X

9786613314697

90-272-8394-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture (DAPSAC) ; ; v. 45

Classificazione

ES 150

Altri autori (Persone)

MajstorovićDanijela

LassenInger <1951->

Disciplina

408.1

Soggetti

Language and languages - Gender

Language and languages - Sex differences

Code switching (Linguistics)

Language and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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