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Words, Worlds, and Material Girls : Language, Gender, Globalization.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Language, power, and social process.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction. Language, gender and economies in global transitions: Provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated; 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; Chapter 4. Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India: On agency and the politics of voice.