Synopses & Reviews
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, a stellar group of language and gender specialists consider both the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, the business world and the media.
Review
"I appreciate the breadth of contexts sudied, from media, politics, work settings, religion courtrooms and classrooms. I believe they constitute a solid coverage that potentially make the book a classic, bridging a broad spectrum of evidence that will be very useful both to advanced undergraduate and to graduate students and to researchers...There is no other text that does similar work...very exciting and satisfying."- Victoria Bergvall, Michigan Technological University
About the Author
Judith Baxter is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Reading University.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors * Preface * Introduction--J.Baxter * PART 1: * Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts--D.Cameron * Gaining a Public Voice: An Historical Perspective on American Women's Speech in Public Contexts--J.M.Bean * Constructing Gender in Public Arguments: The Female Voice as Emotional Voice--L.Litosseliti * PART 2: * Gender and 'Stage Fright' at Academic Conferences--S.Mills * Language and Gender in Political Debates--S.Shaw * Silence as Morality: Lecturing at a Theology College--A.Jule * Gender and the Genre of the Broadcast Interview--C.Walsh * Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities--S.Ehrlich * 'Do we have to agree with her?' How High School Girls Negotiate Leadership in Public Contexts--J.Baxter * Positioning the Female Voice within Work and Family--S.Kendall * Sexuality, Discourse and the Public Sphere: Investigating Women's Voices on Sexuality in Black South African Communities--P.Hanong * 'They say it's a man's world, but you can't prove it by me': African-American Comediennes' Construction of Voice in the Public Space--D.Troutman * Effective Leadership in New Zealand Workplaces: Balancing Gender and Role--M.Marra, S.Schnurr & J.Holmes * Index