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[ecrea] New book - Living with Patriarchy - Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures

Wed Nov 02 14:26:38 GMT 2011


*Living with Patriarchy*

*Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures*

*Edited by Danijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen*

University of Banja Luka / Aalborg University

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Within these different geographical contexts, a broadly defined notion of culture incorporates organizational cultures, subcultures of society, cultures of clans or tribes as well as national cultures, depending on the meanings ascribed to the notion by people in public and private spaces. The central question of the volume, which is addressed through a variety of data, different discourse analytical approaches and research methodologies, is: How is gender constructed in social life and in patriarchal systems through discourse in different parts of the world?


*[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 45] 2011. vi, 307 pp.*

*Hb **978 90 272 0636 7 EUR 95.00*

*E-book **978 90 272 8394 8 EUR 95.00*

*Table of contents*

Gender imbalances revisited: Introduction

/Danijela Majstorović and Inger Lassen/

*Part I. Patriarchy and emancipation in private spaces*

"He beat her so hard she fell head over heels": Normalising wife abuse in Colombia

/Laura Tolton/

The discursive construction of gender among Dholuo speakers in Kenya

/Michael O. Abudi, Felicia Yieke Arudo and Catherine W. Kitetu/

Snippa -- a new word for girls' genitals in Swedish: Gender-neutral or patriarchal?

/Karin Milles/

What it means to be a Bosnian woman: Analyzing women's talk between patriarchy and emancipation

/Danijela Majstorović and Maja Mandic/

*Part II. Mediating gender in public spaces*

Greek men's and women's magazines as codes of gender conduct: The appropriation and hybridisation of deontic discourses

/Ourania Hatzidaki/

Representation of desire and femininity: The advertisement in late-modern consumer culture of Japan

/Toyoko Sato/

Gendered discourse(s): Liberia's 'Iron Lady' vs. George Weah

/Grace Diabah/

Gender ideologies in the Vietnamese printed media

/Nguyen Thi Thu Ha/

*Part III. Trajectories of patriarchy and emancipation across professions*

Constructing masculine work identity through narrative: Two case studies from emergency medicine in Quebec

/Stella Advani/

Stereotyping gender: Discursive constructions of social identities in a Danish bank

/Inger Lassen/

Living in therapeutic culture: Feminine discourse as an agent of change

/Joanna Pawelczyk and Eva Maria Graf/

Index

Book blurbs

"At a time when widespread public discourses about gender would have us believe that sexism and gender inequality are outmoded concepts today, this book powerfully testifies to their continued prevalence in contemporary societies. Based on an impressive diversity of national, cultural, and institutional contexts, Majstorovic and Lassen convincingly demonstrate that alongside the achievement of social progress for women, deep-seated patriarchal ideologies persist perniciously in a variety of forms, discursively and non-discursively, locally and globally."

*Michelle M. Lazar*, /National University of Singapore/

"/Living with Patriarchy /is an exceptional rethinking of gender issues in the light of new data. Both challenging and masterful, the book offers bold and expansive ways of interrogating patriarchy with new voices, thus enriching our understanding of gender as an analytical category and refreshing our methodologies and research processes in the field. An important and suggestive addition to the literature on gender issues."

*Fatima Sadiqi*, /University of Fez, Morocco/

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