31.2647, Books: Women, Language and Politics: Shaw

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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:55:29
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Women, Language and Politics: Shaw

 


Title: Women, Language and Politics 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/women-language-and-politics?format=HB 


Author: Sylvia Shaw

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107080881 Pages: 334 Price: U.S. $ 125
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107080881 Pages: 334 Price: U.K. £ 95


Abstract:

This book addresses the problem of the underrepresentation of women in
politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains inequality in
political institutions. Drawing on different political genres from televised
debates to parliamentary question times, and fifty interviews with politicians
between 1998 and 2018, the book identifies the barriers and obstacles women
face by considering how gender stereotypes constrain women's participation,
and give them additional burdens. By comparing the UK House of Commons with
newer institutions such as the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for
Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly, it asks: how successful have newer
institutions been in encouraging equal participation? What are the
interactional procedures that can be thought of as making an institution more
egalitarian? It also explores the workings and effects of sexism, fraternal
networks, high visibility in the media, and gendered discourses, through
detailed case studies of Theresa May, Julia Gillard and Hillary Clinton.

1. Introduction
2. Gender and language in political institutions
3. Women's linguistic participation in a traditional male-dominated forum: the
UK House of Commons
4. Women's linguistic participation in the new devolved assemblies of the UK
5. Barriers to women's participation in politics
6 Case studies I: leading political women: Theresa May
7. Case studies II: leading political women: Julia Gillard and Hilary Clinton
8. Women, language and politics: gains and losses.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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