Language, Gender, and Power:
Politics of Representation and Hegemony in South Asia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 19 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199067398
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 225x147x19 mm
- Weight 448 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 coloured figures 0
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Long description:
The book focuses on the role of language as a powerful tool in representing and structuring the world. It explores how language can help construct stereotypes, identities, and human relationships. By constructing stereotypes language also manifests and perpetuates gender differences. The author examines how gender is in fact made up on a continuous basis in different linguistic and artistic expressions, e.g., sayings and proverbs, jokes, songs, films, TV plays,
newspapers, theatre, and slogans behind vehicles, and reveals how these apparently playful activities strengthen gender stereotypes unnoticed. The book highlights the politics of representation and hegemony with regard to women with special reference to language. The readers are encouraged to realize that
on the one hand language is a tool of control and hegemony while on the other hand it can be used to mount resistance against hegemony by reversing the discourse.
Table of Contents:
Contents:
Part 1: LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION, AND HEGEMONY
Language: A socio-political phenomenon
Power and politics of discourse
Language, representation, and control
Part 2: LANGUAGE AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION
Manufacturing gender and role of language
Growing up with gender
Language and gender: Revisiting research
Part 3: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND PERFORMANCE
Literature and politics of exclusion
Sayings, proverbs, and women
Gender and jokes
Matrimonial ads: societal expectations
Part 4: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND EDUCATION
Gender and education
Nursery rhymes and gender representation
Representation of women in fairy tales
Part 5: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND MEDIA
Gender and media
Women in advertisements
TV plays and gender stereotypes
Construction of gender in films
Representation of women in songs
Part 6: GENDERED DISCOURSE: REFORM AND RESISTANCE
Need for language reform
Resistance through language
Bibliography
