This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings. The book explores six case studies of women leaders, three in UK companies and three in a Bahraini company. The authors analyse meeting and transcript data to show that, in both cultural contexts, the women negotiate a range of gendered discourses such as ‘hierarchy and status’ and ‘masculinisation’ in order to manage their teams with authority and skill. The book challenges received wisdom about the opportunities and constraints each cultural context offers women in public life. While the UK women are constrained by chronic change and uncertainty in performing their roles effectively, the Bahraini women are far better supported by their bosses, yet are constrained by patriarchal assumptions of what constitutes effective leadership. The book demonstrates the use of Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA), which is applied by scholars worldwide yet has relatively few published models of practice.

Product Description: The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South...read more

Product Description: Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at senior level in the business world? Using data from senior management meetings, this book explores how female leaders use language to achieve their business and relational goals by arguing that senior women have to develop linguistic expertise in order to be effective leaders...read more

Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings.

Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, a group of language and gender specialists considers the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, the business world and the media, where people are judged by the way they speak and where female speech is evaluated differently.

Product Description: Through the Wetmore family diaries, Agricultural Society minutes, and other records, this book provides a fascinating look at farming life in nineteenth-century New Brunswick. The diaries cover the years 1870 to 1891; shop records begin in 1864 and include detailed client lists...read more

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Product Description: A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Making Meaning is intended for students at Keystage 4 who are following a GCSE course in English. Each chapter in the book aims to encourage students to explore and experiment widely with language, and thereby fully respond to the requirements for English in the National Curriculum...read more

Product Description: This is a book specifically for 16- to 18-year-olds who have entered the sixth form/further education stage of education, but who wish to follow a one-year course in GCSE English. There is an increasing number of 16+ students who opt to retake English at GCSE level and who wish both to improve their general use of English and their ability to communicate, and achieve a grade higher than that obtained at school in order to facilitate access to higher education or employment...read more