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Gender and the language of illness / Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale.
- Title
- Gender and the language of illness / Jonathan Charteris-Black, Clive Seale.
- Author
- Charteris-Black, Jonathan, 1955-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Seale, Clive.
- Description
- xiv, 247 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Gender and the Language of Illness is based on the findings of a large number of interviews with people talking about their experiences of many different types of illness. Their use of language shows the influences of gender, social class and age and reveals conformity and resistance to gender stereotypes. Women express negative feelings towards illness more confidently than men who are usually more hesitant about expressing a personal response. Women tend to see illness as an opportunity for self-transformation, while men often distance themselves from the experience by pretending it is happening to someone else. Women from a high social class are more critical of the health system and older women see themselves as authorities on illness and suffering. However, there is also resistance to stereotypes by higher class and younger men who redefine their gender identity by using 'feminine' language and by treating illness as an opportunity to develop a new dynamic sense of self.
- Subject
- Qualitative Research
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Sociology, Medical
- Sex Factors
- Sex factors in disease
- Language and languages > Sex differences
- Sexism in language
- Discourse analysis
- Medicine > Language
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Languages
- Discourse analysis
- Sex factors in disease
- Sexism in language
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Gender and the language of illness -- Methods for investigating gender and language -- Men's traditional discourse of illness: distancing and avoidance -- A feminine discourse of illness: transformation and modality -- Emotional disclosure: socio-economic classification, age and gender -- Experience of support: gender, social class and age -- Illness type and gender -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780230222359 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010011787
- OCLC
- 567165963
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library