Language and sexism /

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Author / Creator:Mills, Sara, 1954-
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 178 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814031
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ISBN:0511429339
9780511429330
9780511429712
0511429711
0521001749
0521807115
9780521807111
9780521001748
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-173) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:The author takes a critical look at sexism in language and argues that even in feminist circles it has become a problematic concept. Drawing on conversational and textual data collected over the last ten years, Mills suggests that there are two forms of sexism - overt and indirect.
Other form:Print version: Mills, Sara, 1954- Language and sexism. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 0521807115 0521001749
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Problems with research on sexism
  • Overt sexism and indirect sexism
  • Responses to sexism
  • Problems of reform
  • Changing nature of feminist impact
  • Changing status of women
  • My theoretical positon
  • Third wave feminism
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Structure of the book
  • Overt sexism
  • Hate speech and sexism
  • Contexts of sexism
  • Types of overt sexism
  • Words and meaning
  • Processes
  • Sexism, racism and homophobia
  • Language reform
  • Institutional language change
  • Strategies of reform
  • Critique
  • Alternative terms
  • Feminist renaming/neologism
  • Critique by using marked words
  • Inflecting pejorative words positively
  • Answering back/wit
  • Effectiveness of reform
  • Responses to anti-sexist campaigns
  • 'Political correctness'
  • Development of the term 'politicial correctness'
  • 'Political incorrectness'
  • Positive evaluation of 'political incorrectness'
  • 'Political incorrectness' as a term of disparagement
  • Ridiculing/irony
  • As a synonym for 'sexist' or 'racist'
  • Anti-sexist campaigns and 'political correctness'
  • Model of 'political correctness' and anti-sexism
  • Indirect sexism
  • Language as a system
  • Language as a system
  • Stereotypes
  • Institutions and language
  • Indirect sexism
  • Types of indirect sexism
  • Humour
  • Presupposition
  • Conflicting messages
  • Scripts and metaphors
  • Collocation
  • Androcentric perspective
  • Challenging indirect sexism
  • Conclusions
  • Public sensitivity to issues of sexism
  • Why analyse sexism
  • Why reform matters
  • Should we accept sexism?