Author: Sally McConnell-Ginet
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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All the 21 essays are outstanding contributions exemplifying the most interesting and sophisticated methodologies in feminist literary criticism. The essays are written by specialists representing a wide range of disciplines (linguistics, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, history and anthropology). An editors' introduction preceding each of the four parts provides a useful summary.
Author: Shari Benstock
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253322333
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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..". an important and valuable collection... the essays are at the cutting edge of post modernism." -- Maggie Humm, Women's Studies International Forum "This well-written, carefully edited anthology provides an excellent overview of the thicket of contemporary feminist literary theory... No library should be without it." -- Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review "In all, this is a rich and varied collection." -- Journal of Modern Literature Explores the aesthetic and political issues inherent in feminist critical theory and practice. Contributors include Shari Benstock, Elaine Showalter, Nina Baym, Paula A. Treichler, Jane Marcus, Josephine Donovan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Judith Newton, Lillian S. Robinson, Nina Auerbach, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Hortense J. Spillers, and Susan Stanford Friedman.
Author: Barrie Thorne
Publisher: Newbury House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Communication
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Tonglin Lu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438411332
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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"Only women and inferior men are difficult to deal with." — Confucius Two thousand years after Confucius, the contributors to this book ask if Chinese women have succeeded in changing their status as the equivalent of "inferior men." Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature and Society approaches the role of women in social change through analyzing literature and culture during the May Fourth and the Post-Cultural Revolution periods.
Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195347173
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.
Author: Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226979229
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.
Author: Thu Tran
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668547327
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 67%, Curtin University of Technology (Seameo retrac), course: Master of applied lingustics, language: English, abstract: This paper looks at the literature which has helped us to understand the topic: language and gender in society. It provides a context of past and recent developments in language and gender theories. It focuses on two types of studies: 1. Sex exclusive speech differences and 2. Sex preferential speech features. It also examines the three major approaches to language and gender: Deficit theory, Difference theory and Social Constructivist approach. Discoveries from previous research of these studies are also mentioned and discussed in this paper.
Author: Jerilyn Fisher
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: 0313313466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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With the literary canon consisting mostly of works created by and about men, the central perspective is decidedly male. This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature. The list of titles, created in consultation with educators, includes classic works by male authors like Dickens, Faulkner, and Twain, balanced with works by female authors such as Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Also included are contemporary works by writers such as Alice Walker and Margaret Atwood that are being incorporated into the curriculum, as well as those advancing a more global view, such as Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. The essays are expertly written in an accessible language that will help students gain greater awareness of gender-related themes. Suggestions for classroom discussions—with selected works for further study—are incorporated into the entries. The volume is organized alphabetically by title and includes both author and subject indexes. An appendix of gender-related themes further enhances this volume's usefulness for curriculum applications and student research projects.
Author: Ann Weatherall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134701926
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Is language sexist? Do women and men speak different languages? Gender, Language and Discourse uniquely examines the contribution that psychological research - in particular, discursive psychology - has made to answering these questions. Until now, books on gender and language have tended to be from the sociolinguistic perspective and have focused on one of two issues - sexism in language or gender differences in speech. This book considers both issues and develops the idea that they shouldn't be viewed as mutually exclusive endeavours but rather as part of the same process - the social construction of gender. Ann Weatherall highlights the fresh insights that a social constructionist approach has made to these debates, and presents recent theoretical developments and empirical work in discursive psychology relevant to gender and language. Gender, Language and Discourse provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the gender and language field from a psychological perspective. It will be invaluable to students and researchers in social psychology, cultural studies, education, linguistic anthropology and women's studies.
Author: Anne Pauwels
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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It considers what forms of sexism are found in language and whether these differ among languages. It also looks at how sexist language can be changed and evaluates the effectiveness of these reforms.
