1st Edition

De-Gendering Gendered Occupations Analysing Professional Discourse

By Joanne McDowell Copyright 2021
    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    230 Pages
    by Routledge

    De-Gendering Gendered Occupations brings together contributions from researchers on language and gender studies and workplace discourse to unpack and challenge hegemonic gendered norms encoded in what are traditionally considered female occupations. The volume integrates a range of theoretical frameworks, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, and interactional sociolinguistics, to analyse data from such professions as primary education, healthcare, and speech and language therapy across various geographic contexts. Through this lens, the first part of the book examines men’s linguistic practices with the second part offering a comparative analysis of 'male' and 'female' discourse. The settings discussed here allow readers to gain insights into the ways in which cultural, professional, and gendered identity intersect for practitioners in these professions and in turn, future implications for discourse around gendered professions more generally. This book will be key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, gender studies, cultural studies, and professional discourse.

    Table of contents

    Part One

     

    Chapter One: Introduction

    Joanne McDowell

     

    Chapter Two: Male eldercare workers in New Zealand

    Bernadette Vine

    Meredith Marra

    Janet Holmes

     

    Chapter Three: "We are breastfeeding, right?" Exploring the discourse of male healthcare providers in antenatal consultations in Malawi

    Stephanie Schnurr

    Rachel Chimbwete- Phiri

     

    Chapter Four: A discourse of caring: A case study of male nurses’ discourse and identity construction in the United Kingdom and New Zealand

    Joanne McDowell

    Marina Lazzaro-Salazar

    Meredith Marra

     

    Chapter Five: Finding their own voice in a women’s world: A case study of male nurses in New Zealand

    Marina Lazzaro-Salazar

     

     

    Part Two

     

    Chapter Six: De-gendering communicative English classrooms in Vietnam. A case study of a male teacher in a female profession

    Nhung Hong Thi Nguyen

     

    Chapter Seven: "Nice, threat-free and child-friendly": Gendered discourses in the Speech and Language Therapy profession

    Lia Litosseliti

    Claire Leadbeater

     

    Chapter Eight: Performing Classroom Management in the Primary School Classroom: A Cross-National Study

    Joanne McDowell

    Revert Klattenberg

    Friedrich Lenz

     

    Chapter Nine: Gender and (Im)Politeness in Classroom Discourse: Using Pre-reproach Questions to Respond to Pupils’ Parallel Activities in a ‘Context of Care’

    Revert Klattenberg

     

    Biography

    Joanne McDowell is a Principal Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Hertfordshire, England. She specialises in the area of workplace discourse, gender studies, identity construction, classroom discourse and interactional sociolinguistics. She has published in numerous edited collections and journals including journals Gender, Work and Organisation; Gender and Language, and Gender and Education.