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Language and sexism /
The author takes a critical look at sexism in language and argues that even in feminist circles it has become a problematic concept. Drawing on conversational and textual data collected over the last ten years, Mills suggests that there are two forms of sexism - overt and indirect.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Problems with research on sexism
- Overt sexism and indirect sexism
- Responses to sexism
- Problems of reform
- Changing nature of feminist impact
- Changing status of women
- My theoretical positon
- Third wave feminism
- Critical discourse analysis
- Structure of the book
- Overt sexism
- Hate speech and sexism
- Contexts of sexism
- Types of overt sexism
- Words and meaning
- Processes
- Sexism, racism and homophobia
- Language reform
- Institutional language change
- Strategies of reform
- Critique
- Alternative terms
- Feminist renaming/neologism
- Critique by using marked words
- Inflecting pejorative words positively
- Answering back/wit
- Effectiveness of reform
- Responses to anti-sexist campaigns
- 'Political correctness'
- Development of the term 'politicial correctness'
- 'Political incorrectness'
- Positive evaluation of 'political incorrectness'
- 'Political incorrectness' as a term of disparagement
- Ridiculing/irony
- As a synonym for 'sexist' or 'racist'
- Anti-sexist campaigns and 'political correctness'
- Model of 'political correctness' and anti-sexism
- Indirect sexism
- Language as a system
- Language as a system
- Stereotypes
- Institutions and language
- Indirect sexism
- Types of indirect sexism
- Humour
- Presupposition
- Conflicting messages
- Scripts and metaphors
- Collocation
- Androcentric perspective
- Challenging indirect sexism
- Conclusions
- Public sensitivity to issues of sexism
- Why analyse sexism
- Why reform matters
- Should we accept sexism?