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Title Words, worlds, and material girls [electronic resource] : language, gender, globalization / edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny.

Imprint Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

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Description vi, 454 p. : ill.
Series Language, power, and social process ; 19
Language, power, and social process ; 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Language and sex.
Globalization.
Multilingualism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9783110195743 (hardcover : alk. paper)
3110195747 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9783110195750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
3110195755 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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