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Gender and sexual identities in transition : international perspectives /

The aim of this volume is to offer an international panorama of gendered and sexualised experiences, with new and original data collected from a variety of cultural settings and sociopolitical contexts. We look at many parts of the world (Japan, Sweden, Poland, Cyprus, Spain, US, Australia, Canada,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Santaemilia, José, Bou, Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle, England : Cambridge Scholars Pub., ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gender and bilingualism: connecting experiences and theories / Joan Pujolar
  • 'Bigger is better': masculinity and consumerist discourses in Viagra advertisements / Andrea Simon-Maeda
  • Masculinity as public performance: gendered language patterns and religious indentity in a college classroom / Allyson Jule
  • The missus, the co-habitee and the real babe: heteronormativity in Swedish conversations / Stina Ericsson
  • Gender stereotypes and globalised customer service communication in Poland / Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk
  • Borrowing and swearing: indirect construction of gender at a Hungarian workplace / Nóra Schleicher
  • 'I'll be a rooster crowing in the hen coop, but you'll be a hen and I'll be bothering you': the male sexual identity in Cyprus verbal dueling / Elli Doukanari
  • Selling and gender: rapport building strategies used by American TV shopping networks' hosts / Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
  • 'Beautifual Japanese language': women's speech in Japanese printed media / Lidia Tanaka
  • 'War of words' on new (legal) sexual identities: Spain's recent gender-related legislation and discursive conflict / José Santaemilia
  • Hybrid or in between cultures: traditions of marriage in a group of British Bangladeshi girls / Pia Pichler.