The first collection to bring together well-known scholars writing from feminist perspectives within Critical Discourse Analysis. The theoretical structure of CDA is illustrated with empirical research from a range of locations (from Europe to Asia; the USA to Australasia) and domains (from parliament to the classroom; the media to the workplace).

The first volume on feminist perspectives on Critical Discourse Analysis - the dominant discourse methodology

List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Politicizing Gender in Discourse: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis as Political Perspective and Praxis; M.Lazar PART 1: POST EQUALITY?: ANALYSES OF SUBTLE SEXISM Power and Discourse at Work: Is Gender Relevant?; J.Holmes The Gender of Power: The Female Style in Labour Organizations; L.Martin Rojo& C.Gómez Esteban Gender Mainstreaming and the European Union: Interdisciplinarity, Gender Studies and CDA; R.Wodak Negotiating the Classroom Floor: Negotiating Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality; K.Remlinger Performing State Fatherhood: The Remaking of Hegemony; M.Lazar PART 2: EMANCIPATION AND SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP: ANALYSES OF IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE Choosing to Refuse to be a Victim: 'Power Feminism' and the Intertextuality of Victimhood and Choice; M.Talbot Interdiscursivity, Gender Identity and the Politics of Literacy in Brazil; I.Magalhães The 'Terrorist Feminist': Strategies of Gate-Keeping in the Hungarian Printed Media; E.Barát Assumptions about Gender, Power and Opportunity: Gays and Lesbians as Discursive Subjects in a Portuguese Newspaper; C . Gouveia Index