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Zusatztext "A masterpiece of language and gender research! and a powerful political intervention in current times. Covering a broad geopolitical spectrum! and employing different theoretical and methodological approaches! this book is an indispensable read for everyone who wants to challenge sexism through intellectual and activist practices."Tommaso M. Milani! University of Gothenburg and University of the Witwatersrand! Johannesburg"Persuasive arguments for revisiting and reinterrogating the central questions for feminists in the 1960s! in relation to linguistically mediated violence! evaluating where progress has been made and where more nuanced contextualised work still needs to be done."Sara Mills! Emeritus Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University"This collection focuses our attention on the continued verbal and structural violence that shapes and restricts women's experience in the world. The chapters reflect critically on the political! social and interpersonal impact of sexism; they are eloquent in outlining ways in which the world could be different - and in articulating the factors that impede those changes."Miriam Meyerhoff! Victoria University of Wellington Informationen zum Autor Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is also Senior Research Fellow in the English Department at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she taught and researched for many years. She has published widely in the areas of Critical Discourse, Media and Gender Studies. Klappentext Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection essays from internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. Zusammenfassung Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection essays from internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Preface - Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard Part I Language, discourse and gender violence 1. Women, language and public discourse: five decades of sexism and scrutiny Alice F. Freed 2. The gender respect gap Deborah Cameron 3. The transgressive, the traditional: sexist discourses of grandmothering and ageing Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Rosamund Moon 4. 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 5. Sexual harassment as reported by the Brazilian press: ambivalent and contradictory framings Branca Telles Ribeiro and Liliana Cabral Bastos Part II Sexism and institutional discourses 6. "Until I got a man in he wouldn't listen": evidence for the gender order in New Zealand workplaces Janet Holmes 7. Sexism and mediatised recontextualisations: the case of a battered woman who killed Sibley Slinkard and Susan Ehrlich 8. The discourse of (re)exploitation: female victims in the legal system Nicci MacLeod 9. Language-based discrimination in schools: intersections of gender and sexuality Helen Sauntson ...
