Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media

by Melissa Yoong

This book examines the professional discourses produced in women's media in Malaysia and the subject positions that they make available for career women. Drawing on feminist critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and feminist conversation analysis, it identifies a range of gendered discourses around employment and motherhood that are underpinned by postfeminism and neoliberal feminism. Through close linguistic analysis of magazine and newspaper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030555437
• ISBN13: 9783030555436
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"