Feminism and Discourse

Introduction - Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger PART ONE: EMPIRICAL WORK The Bleeding Body - Kathryn Matthews Lovering Adolescents Talk about Menstruation Sexual Harassment - Celia Kitzinger and Alison Thomas A Discursive Approach `What Is It?' Masculinity and Femininity in Cultural Representations of Childhood - Erica Burman Conflicting Opinions? `Anorexia Nervosa', Medicine and Feminism - Julie Hepworth and Christine Griffin PART TWO: THEORETICAL ADVANCES Feminist Discourses and Women's Heterosexual Desire - Wendy Hollway Identity, Politics and Talk - Sue Widdicombe A Case for the Mundane and the Everyday Romantic Discourse and Feminist Analysis - Margaret Wetherell Interrogating Investment, Power and Desire Pragmatism, Extravagance and Feminist Discourse Analysis - Corinne Squire Relativism, Reflexivity and Politics - Rosalind Gill Interrogating Discourse Analysis from a Feminist Perspective

`I find the issues raised by these contributors to be both interesting and significant' - Language and Literature `Whether you are a feminist psychologist or simply a psychologist engaging with the challenges of discourse analytic work, this book is highly recommended... this is the first text of its kind dealing specifically with discourse analysis from a feminist psychological perspective... [a] long overdue collection. As a seminal work adding to the debate surrounding discourse analysis, it is a vital book for anyone engaged in discursive and/or feminist psychological work' - The Psychologist `This much-needed project brings together the newest scholarship on the intersection of discourse analysis, feminism and psychology... a stimulating and complex picture of the state of theory and practice in politically progressive psychological discourse analysis' - Discourse & Society