Call for help

[MJ Hardman]

I suggest you look at my website, especially under 'course summaries'
'language and gender'.  My course is specifically about how language
structures gender, how it is recreated sentence by sentence every day.  Some
of my work is available under 'resources' inside the course materials.  You
may also find some material of interest under 'language and
culture/worldsense' & 'language and violence'.  The texts I use are also of
this type.  Oyewumi is an especially rich source.  Other of my work is
listed on the right side of my website.

My most recent work -- Language, Gender and War -- is listed under
'recent books'.

I wish you well with your work -- this is an important topic.

Dr. MJ Hardman
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/


On 04/11/2005 5:58 AM, "fee" <feliciak at STUDENTS.UNIBE.CH> wrote:

> Dear GALA-Member
> 
> My name is Felicia Kreiselamier and I am a student at the University of
> Berne in Switzerland. Over the past four and a half years I have been
> studying English linguistics as a major, media studies as a first minor and
> cultural and social anthropology as a second minor. I have graduated in both
> media studies and anthropology, and am now left with English Linguistics,
> which I intend to graduate in by April 2006. Within the course of my study
> plan it is required to write an 80 to 100-page thesis similar to a masters
> thesis in the major.
> 
> Within my thesis, I am interested in how language in use in communities of
> practice can effect our perception of gender performativity and identity and
> can lead to a defined and normatively regulated gender performance. I am
> trying to illustrate how we “do³ gender with the help of clichés and
> stereotypes uttered randomly by individuals in everyday conversation, songs,
> media, etc.
> 
> When reading and researching into the literature on language and gender I
> found it very difficult to find material dealing with language and gender in
> the way that I intend to do. I found heaps of literature dealing with
> male/female talk, conversation tactics/behaviour, gendered structures in
> language, etc. I don¹t want to deal with Œgendered language, i.e. how men
> talk differs from women talk but how language ³paints² gender images, how
> its use and not behaviour influences gender practices. I am interested as
> language as the means of expressing social practice through discourse. I aim
> to understand and explain the complexity and intercontextuality of language
> and gender in social communities of practice.
> 
> In search for advice on recent studies, research done in the area of
> language and gender, I decided to turn to you. If you could give me any
> hints, clues, references as to where I could find recent studies and
> publications dealing with language and gender.
> 
> Thank you very much for your time and help.
> 
> I hope to hear from you soon.
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Felicia Kreiselmaier
> 
>