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Women, Language and Politics - Shaw, Sylvia
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This book addresses the problem of the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains inequality in political institutions. Drawing on different political genres from televised debates to parliamentary question times, and fifty interviews with politicians between 1998 and 2018, the book identifies the barriers and obstacles women face by considering how gender stereotypes constrain women's participation, and give them additional burdens. By comparing the UK House of Commons ...

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Women, Language and Politics 2022, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107440265

Trade paperback

Women, Language and Politics 2020, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9781107080881

Hardcover