Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society, and Culture, 2)

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different chapters together illustrate how taking a discourse perspective facilitates understanding of the complex and subtle ways in which gender is represented, constructed and contested through language. The book engages critically with long-running and on-going debates, but also reflects and develops current understandings of gender, identity and discourse, particularly the shift from 'gender differences' to the discoursal shaping of gender. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis thus offers not only insights and methodologies of new empirical studies but also careful theorisations, in particular of discourse , text , identity and gender . The collection is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the area of gender and discourse. This Is A Collection Of Work By Researchers In The Area Of Gender And Language. It Shows How A Discourse Approach To The Study Of Gender And Language Can Facilitate The Study Of The Complex And Subtle Ways In Which Gender Identities Are Represented, Constructed And Contested Through Language. Gender Identity And Discourse Analysis: Theoretical And Empirical Considerations / Jane Sunderland And Lia Litosseliti -- Yes, But Is It Gender? / Joan Swann -- Rethinking Politeness, Impoliteness And Gender Identity / Sara Mills -- Stunning, Shimmering, Iridescent: Toys As The Representation Of Gendered Social Actors / Carmen Rosa Caldas-coulthard And Theo Van Leeuwen -- Consuming Personal Relationships: The Achievement Of Feminine Self-identity Through Other-centeredness/ Michelle M. Lazar -- 'head To Head': Gendered Repertoires In Newspaper Arguments / Lia Litosseliti -- Is There Anything New About These Lads? : The Textual And Visual Construction Of Masculinity In Men's Magazines / Bethan Benwell -- The Case Of The Indefinite Pronoun: Discourse And The Concealment Of Lesbian Identity In Class / Elizabeth Morrish -- Erotic Discourse Strategies In Powerless Women: Analysing Psychiatric Interviews / Branc Telles Ribeiro -- From Representation Towards Discursive Practices; Gender In The Foreign Language Textbook Revisited / Jane Sunderland, Maire Cowley, Fauziah Abdul Rahim, Christina Leontzakou And Julie Shattuck -- What's The Hottest Part Of The Sun? Page 3! Children's Exploration Of Adolescent Gender Identities Through Informal Talk / Janet Maybin -- Pregnant Self And Lost Identity In Ana Blandiana's 'children's Crusade': An Ironical Echo Of The Patriarchal Pro-natality Discourse In Communist Romania / Daniela Sorea -- Baby Entertainer, Bumbling Assistant And Line Manager: Discourses Of Paternal Identity In Parentcraft Texts / Jane Sunderland. Edited By Lia Litosseliti, Jane Sunderland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.