This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.
PART ONE: DISCOURSE AND GENDER Discourse, Discourse Analysis and Gender Discourses, Discourse Identification and Discourse Naming Some Gendered Discourses Identified To Date PART TWO: GENDERED DISCOURSES: EMPIRICAL STUDIES Gendered Discourses in the Classroom Fatherhood Discourses in 'Parenting' Magazines Celebrity Fatherhood: The 'Blair Baby' Gendered Discourses in Children's Literature PART THREE: THEORISING GENDERED DISCOURSES AND LINGUISTIC INTERVENTION The Discoursal Construction of Gender 'Damaging Discourses' and Intervention in Discourse References Index
