Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings.

About the Author
JUDITH BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and language, discourse analysis, classroom language, leadership language, identity and feminist post-structuralism. She is the author of The Language of Female Leadership (Palgrave 2010) and editor of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts (Palgrave 2006). She recently won an ESRC grant to research the subject of gender and leadership discourse.

Reviews

'The strength of the book lies in the theoretical chapters that clearly define components of FDPA. Overall, Baxter makes a convincing case for the usefulness of FDPA as a supplementary tool in the discourse analyst's repertoire' - Adam Hodges, University of Colorado, in Discourse & Society .

Book Information
ISBN 9780230554320
Author J. Baxter
Format Paperback
Page Count 215
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan