In:Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change
Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 33] 2013
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Published online: 27 March 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.33.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsxi
Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology?
Part 1. Gender and linguistic description
Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya
Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana
Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic)
Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use
Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone
Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace
Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities
Chapter 6. A new South African man? Beer, masculinity and social change
Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis?
Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana
Part 4. Gendered struggles and change
Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho: A case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims
Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young women
Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa
Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault”: Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel’s sexual assaults
Part 5. Epilogue
African feminism?
Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts: Bibliography
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