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

*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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