Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

MICHELLE M. LAZAR is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. She has published widely in international journals in the areas of critical discourse studies, gender and feminism, media and political discourse, and multimodality.

'scholars with an interest in language and gender will find this collection informative and interesting, not least for the many striking textual examples reproduced in it. And for the practitioners of CDA, whether or not they count gender among their primary interests, the book is an essential reference.' - Deborah Cameron, Language in Society, 26:1 (2007)

• List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis; M.Lazar PART 1: POST EQUALITY?: ANALYSES OF SUBTLE SEXISM Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant?; J.Holmes The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations; L.Martin Rojo& C.Gómez Esteban Gender Mainstreaming and the European Union: Interdisciplinarity, Gender Studies and CDA; R.Wodak Negotiating the Classroom Floor: Negotiating Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality; K.Remlinger Performing State Fatherhood: The Remaking of Hegemony; M.Lazar PART 2: EMANCIPATION AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP: ANALYSES OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE Choosing to Refuse to be a Victim: 'Power Feminism' and the Intertextuality of Victimhood and Choice; M.Talbot Interdiscursivity, Gender Identity and the Politics of Literacy in Brazil; I.Magalhães The 'Terrorist Feminist': Strategies of Gate-Keeping in the Hungarian Printed Media; E.Barát Assumptions about Gender, Power and Opportunity: Gays and Lesbians as Discursive Subjects in a Portuguese Newspaper; C . Gouveia Index