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Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96556-7

ISBN: 978-3-319-96555-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Sep 5, 2018

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Chapter 1Introduction to the Study of Gender in Italian

Formato, Federica

Pages: 1 –37

[Italy is a fruitful epistemological site, apt to investigate gendered language in relation to a deep-rooted sexist culture and an imbalanced society. Women in private and public spheres are still evaluated and judged against ‘male as a norm’. Notwithstanding an increase in the number of women...
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Chapter 2An Overview of Grammatical Gender in Italian

Formato, Federica

Pages: 39 –80

[Grammatical gendered languages, such as Italian have a lexical, morphological and syntactic system that allows for the formation of gender in the language. A classification of how the Italian gender-specific grammar works and how it is manipulated to serve the ‘male as a norm’ discursive status...
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Chapter 3Feminine Forms Between Recommendations and Usages

Formato, Federica

Pages: 81 –134

[Academia is paying attention to ‘masculine as a norm’ with the aim to unravel the intricate relation between language and a sexist and historically male-oriented society. Activists, among whom, politicians, are also raising their voices to challenge the discursive status quo of language which...
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Chapter 4Women in the Public Sphere: Gendered Language

Formato, Federica

Pages: 135 –198

[Language used for, about and by female politicians, is qualitatively and quantitatively investigated to demonstrate how language operates to signal gender, gendering and gendered prototyping. The media have found ways to expose a ‘war among female politicians’, manipulating the choices of the...
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Chapter 5Women, Crime and Gender in the Private Sphere: Femminicidio

Formato, Federica

Pages: 199 –272

[Exploring the historical gendered fixed roles for women and men in the private, i.e. heterosexual relationships, demonstrates that these prove equally detrimental to women. The femminicidio, the crime in which men kill their on-going or former partners, is a widespread phenomenon worldwide as...
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Chapter 6Conclusions

Formato, Federica

Pages: 273 –288

[A sexist and imbalanced status quo is reproduced in the language used to describe, refer to and construct women, in both the private and the public spheres. Speakers, politics and the media are all sites where binary and traditional stereotypes about women (and men) are reignited. Women are seen...

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