Роль женщины в обществе, истории и культуре

Аннотация: Jeden Morgen stehen wir vor dem Schrank und damit vor der Frage: "Was ziehe ich an?" So trivial einerseits, so vielschichtig ist die alltagliche Kleidungspraxis bei genauerer Betrachtung. Diese ethnographische Studie lasst die Akteurinnen und Akteure ausfuhrlich zu Wort kommen und zeigt, wie sich Geschlecht, Korper, Politik und soziale Unterschiede in der Kleidung reflektieren.

Аннотация: for those with an interest in language, this book is the most detailed depiction yet published of how women use language in talking to each other and how it differs from other kinds of talk. For feminist readers, it offers a remarkableinsigjt into women's experiences, their friendships and the crucial role language plays in building and maintaining those friendships.

Аннотация: The idea of the house dress is closely related to the concept of housework and domesticity. Elda Danese traces the circumstances that led to the success and the worldwide use of the house dress over a period spanning from the 1920s to the present.

Аннотация: The book covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the textbook offers an unprecedentedly broad and deep coverage of the interaction between language and social life, rangind from nuances of pronunciation, to conversational dynamics, to the deployment of metaphor.

Аннотация: A vehement attack on the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes. Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles increasingly defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. That's the reason, we're told, that there are so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room - different brains are just better suited to different things. Drawing on the latest research in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and social psychology, Delusions of Gender powerfully rebuts these claims, showing how old myths, dressed up in new scientific finery, are helping perpetuate the sexist status quo.

Аннотация: This collection of essays investigates social, political and ethical understandings of sexed bodies. In what ways is the human body represented in Western culture? Specifically, what are the unacknowledged philosophical underpinnings of dominant representations of sexual difference?

Аннотация: The book draws together for the first time the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. These include sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis and queer theory.

Аннотация: Gender and Spoken Interaction presents a diverse collection of language and gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction. The volume explores how gender is accomplished and reflected in spoken interaction, in relation to other situational and larger-scale sociocultural practices, identities and structures. Contributors present a wide range of lively data from private as well as institutional contexts, produced by speakers across all life stages and from a number of different ethnic, social, national and linguistic backgrounds.

Аннотация: Der Sammelband zur Genderlinguistik zeigt Praktiken der sprachlichen Konstruktion von Geschlechteridentitäten aus diversen Blickwinkeln auf. Die Beiträge präsentieren aktuelle methodische und theoretische Zugänge zur Analyse des Zusammenhangs von Sprache und Geschlecht, diskutieren aktuelle Fragestellungen und skizzieren neue Perspektiven zur sprachlichen Geschlechterkonstruktion in medialen Kontexten, in Face-to-Face-Interaktionen und im Zusammenspiel von Sprachsystem und -gebrauch.

Аннотация: This volume offers a thorough and wide introduction to gender-specific issues connected with aspects of foreign language teaching and learning. The contributors share tje opinion that Gender Studies should be considered one of the "link disciplines" of foreign language teaching and research.