Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalization

by Bonnie S. Mcelhinny (Editor)

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States.

454 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2007