Page v Tuesday‚ May 8‚ 2007 6:13 PM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Notes on the Contributors viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis Michelle M. Lazar Part I 1 Post-Equality? Analyses of Subtle Sexism 2 Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant? Janet Holmes 31 3 The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations Luisa Martín Rojo and Concepción Gómez Esteban 61
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other such women‚ their rights were restricted even at home. They were expected to be housewives and only a few low jobs were acceptable for them if they must work. This is despite that higher education and other occupations are open to them. Many chicanas tried to take active roles in the chicano movement‚ but they were mostly limited to behind-the-scenes clerical and secretarial roles. They were even subjected to sexual objectification by chicanos. Very few like Dolorez Huerta were known to the mainstream
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Selena and Marisa Navarro are prime examples of two women who experienced significant patriarchical constraints to their agency. This‚ however‚ did not stop them from negotiating and resisting these constraints in their own way and in their own life. Their stories are told through various mediums‚ including the movie Selena and the article "Becoming La Mujer" by Marisa Navarro. Selena’s strongest patriarchical influence came from her father‚ who attempted to control various aspects of her life for
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of People of Color as a way to understand racism in the US (Yosso‚ 2005). LatCrit helps me analyze sexism‚ racism‚ and classism from a historical and interdisciplinary perspective (Yosso‚ 2005). The other theory I will use for this project is Chicana feminism. Which Espinoza (2010) explained stems from the necessity of Mexican origin women to develop survival skills in order to navigate two cultures at the same time. These women are forced to learn
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During the 1980s we witness a powerful manifestation of courage hailing from the Chicana women. In class we discussed forms of oppression that were displayed such as: nonconsensual sterilizations‚ employment discrimination‚ underemployment‚ etc. In a world dominated by men‚ the Chicana women mobilized and took a stand against such forms of injustice. Though reactions towards this caused them to be labeled as “malinches”‚ they fought to “create a space of their own”‚ abolish the patriarchy completely
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that the role of la Chicana in the movement was to “stand behind her man (Riddell).” The Conference expose the sexism and Chicana women were not having it‚ so they left the Conference and created the Chicana Caucus. Another example‚ that Chicana women weren’t well represent is the documentation of el Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Where the cause of the Chicana/o movement was documented where women were not mention nor their contribution and benefit of the movement. The Chicana/o movement had many
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Seven Types of Paragraph Development by Gerald Grow‚ PhD Division of Journalism Florida A&M University http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/modes.html In their pursuit of clear‚ concise writing‚ journalism students sometimes develop the habit of writing everything in short‚ choppy paragraphs that are unrelated to one another. Reviewing any good high school writing handbook will remind you that considerable thought has been given to how longer paragraphs can be developed into well focused presentations
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Reading this passage‚ I could feel the frustration and the longing for people to understand the La Chicanas behind Martinez’s writing. How throughout history‚ the Chicanas have been forced to endure so many different types of oppressions by many different types of people. What Martinez calls triple oppression‚ oppression by “the forces of racism‚ imperialism‚ and sexism‚” and that every woman who is not white‚ is able to feel this type of oppression. And she’s right- as a white woman I will never
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OF DISCOURSE. Prof. S .Jayaraman. Email: jayaraman121@gmail.com ‘Of Discourse’ is one of the celebrated essays of Francis Bacon. Of discourse means of conversation. The precepts that Bacon convincingly writes about are brief and precise. Conversation is an art. Some people show off their ingenuity on many subjects in order show their power of judgement. Some others constantly repeat their pet themes and arguments and become tedious
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learning. Tara J. Yoso and Daniel G. Solorzano‚ The students at the University of California‚ Mentioned in their article “Leaks in the Chicana and Chicano Pipeline”(2006) that schools are systems which promote white supremacy. They argue‚ “Most graduate programs tend to be racially exclusive featuring predominately white students‚ faculty and curricula that omit Chicana/o histories and perspectives”. As it is specifically mentioned in the article‚ the education system tends to be structured in a way
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