Words, worlds, and material girls
Subtitle: language, gender, globalization
By: edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny
Contributors: McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-
Series: Language, power and social process -- 19
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9783110195743; 9783110195750
Subjects: Language and sex; Globalization; Multilingualism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny; title: Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips; title: "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang; title: When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin; title: Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman; title: Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue; title: Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny; title: Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio; title: Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller; title: African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar; title: Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen; title: Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz; title: Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang; title: Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier