Language and Gender is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It is set to become the standard textbook for courses on language and gender.
In this thoughtful study, Phillip Goldstein shows how the valuation of aesthetics in literary criticism has become increasingly complicated in recent decades. Contemporary readers not only need to look at the text's figures and structure, or the author's intention but must take various media, including television, movies, magazines, and newspapers; as well as the sexuality, gender, race, or nationality of the author, media, or text into account.
Contributions to this work deal not only with grammatical gender but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which have not received extensive linguistic and discourse analysis, such as Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. Questions of English grammatical gender are also dealt with.
Topics covered: Chapter 1 What Is a Portrait? Chapter 2 The Functions of Portraiture Chapter 3 Power and Status Chapter 4 Group Portraiture Chapter 5 The Stages of Life Chapter 6 Gender and Portraiture Chapter 7 Self-portraiture Chapter 8 Portraiture and Modernism Chapter 9 Identities
This book is designed to bring the reader up to date on the theory and research traditions that have proliferated in the analysis of human emotions. Key figures who have carried the sociology of emotions to its current level of prominence review their own work and the work of others who have made contributions to a particular approach to the study of emotions. The outcome is a comprehensive book that serves as a primer on the cutting edge of sociological work in what is obviously a key dynamic in human affairs.
