1st Edition
Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism
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
Biography
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.
"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
