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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971740703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
• ISBN: 9786613314697; 9781283314695; 128331469X; 9789027283948; 902728394X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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