Speaking Out The Female Voice in Public Contexts

by Baxter, Judith

• ISBN13: 9781403994080
• ISBN10: 1403994080
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is the first wideranging collection to focus on the female voice in public contexts. The contributors to this volume show how female speech is often received and evaluated quite differently from the speech of men, whether within government and politics, law, the church, education, the business world, or the media. The book is written with passion by a stellar group of scholars in language and gender from around the English-speaking world, offering students a broad theoretical and contextual canvas. They consider both the barriers and the opportunities encountered by women seeking to gain recognition in the public sphere on the basis of "the way they speak".

Author Biography

Judith Baxter is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Reading University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on the Contributors	x
Introduction	xiii
Judith Baxter
Part I: Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts
1 Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts	3	(18)
Deborah Cameron
2 Gaining a Public Voice: A Historical Perspective on American Women's Public Speaking	21	(19)
Judith Mattson Bean
3 Constructing Gender in Public Arguments: The Female Voice as Emotional Voice	40	(21)
Lia Litosseliti
Part II: Researching the Female Voice in Public Contexts
4 Gender and Performance Anxiety at Academic Conferences	61	(20)
Sara Mills
5 Governed by the Rules?: The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates	81	(22)
Sylvia Shaw
6 Silence as Morality: Lecturing at a Theological College	103	(18)
Allyson Jule
7 Gender and the Genre of the Broadcast Political Interview	121	(18)
Clare Walsh
8 Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities	139	(20)
Susan Ehrlich
9 'Do We Have to Agree with Her?' How High School Girls Negotiate Leadership in Public Contexts	159	(20)
Judith Baxter
10 Positioning the Female Voice within Work and Family	179	(19)
Shari Kendall
11 Culture, Voice and the Public Sphere: A Critical Analysis of the Female Voices on Sexuality in Indigenous South African Society	198	(19)
Puleng Hanong
12 "They Say It's a Man's World, but You Can't Prove that by Me": African American Comediennes' Construction of Voice in Public Space	217	(23)
Denise Troutman
13 Effective Leadership in New Zealand Workplaces: Balancing Gender and Role	240	(21)
Meredith Marra, Stephanie Schnurr and Janet Holmes
Index	261