Overview
- Analyses the role of language in maintaining gender inequalities
- Brings a linguistic lens to the interrogation of post-feminist media
- Integrates feminist critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and conversation analysis
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- Lia Litosseliti, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, City, University of London
An extremely rigorous and timely examination of how gender inequality in the workplace and beyond is maintained and normalized in Malaysia, with particular—and fascinating focus—on women’s media.
With brilliant analyses, fine detail and impressive conceptual clarity, Yoong’s book offers absolutely crucial insight into how postfeminism and neoliberal feminism take on specific contours in the Malaysian context. A significant contribution to the feminist discussion.
- Catherine Rottenberg, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham UK, and author of The Rise of Neoliberal FeminismThis is a rich account of how media language and discourse continue to perpetuate gender inequality at the workplace and reinforce gender gaps in leadership positions. Successful women are portrayed as acing the perfect balancing act, while treading through the fine lines between norms and taboos. By unravelling the reality behind such an idealisation this book is a notable contribution towards our understanding of the postfeminist phase of women’s striving for empowerment and autonomy.
- Maznah Mohamad, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
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Book Title: Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media
Authors: Melissa Yoong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55544-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55543-6Published: 24 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55544-3Published: 23 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 149
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Language and Gender, Discourse Analysis, Asian Culture, Feminism