Words, Worlds, and Material Girls : : Language, Gender, Globalization /

Words, Worlds, and Material Girls : : Language, Gender, Globalization / / ed. by Bonnie S. McElhinny.

Show other versions (1)

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Besnier, Niko,
Bucholtz, Mary,
Gaudio, Rudolf P.,
Heller, Monica,
Inoue, Miyako,
McElhinny, Bonnie,
Miskimmin, Susanne,
Nguyen, Binh,
Philips, Susan U.,
Pujolar, Joan,
Weidman, Amanda,
Yang, Jie,
Zhang, Qing,
HerausgeberIn:
McElhinny, Bonnie S.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 19
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Language, gender and economies in global transitions: Provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated
  • Section I. Scattered hegemonies
  • Chapter 1. Symbolically central and materially marginal: Women’s talk in a Tongan work group
  • Chapter 2. “Re-employment stars”: Language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China
  • Chapter 3. When Aboriginal equals “at risk”: The impact of an institutional keyword on Aboriginal Head Start families
  • Section II. Emerging into history
  • Chapter 4. Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India: On agency and the politics of voice
  • Chapter 5. Echoes of modernity: Nationalism and the enigma of “women’s language” in late nineteenth century Japan
  • Chapter 6. Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines: Erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality
  • Chapter 7. Out on video: Gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic Northern Nigeria
  • Section III. Multilingualism, globalization and nationalism
  • Chapter 8. Gender and bilingualism in the new economy
  • Chapter 9. African women in Catalan language courses: Struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism
  • Chapter 10. Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam
  • Section IV. Commodities and cosmopolitanism
  • Chapter 11. Shop talk: Branding, consumption, and gender in American middle-class youth interaction
  • Chapter 12. Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China: Language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing
  • Chapter 13. Gender and interaction in a globalizing world: Negotiating the gendered self in Tonga
  • Backmatter

Similar Items