1st Edition
De-Gendering Gendered Occupations Analysing 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.
