Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Gender imbalances revisited 1
4. Part I. Patriarchy and emancipation in private spaces
5. “He beat her so hard she fell head over heels” 17
6. The discursive construction of gender among Dholuo speakers in Kenya 49
7. Snippa – a new word for girls’ genitals in Swedish 69
8. What it means to be a Bosnian woman 81
9. Part II. Mediating gender in public spaces
10. Greek men’s and women’s magazines as codes of gender conduct 113
11. Representation of desire and femininity 145
12. Gendered discourse(s) 169
13. Gender ideologies in the Vietnamese printed media 195
14. Part III. Trajectories of patriarchy and emancipation across professions
15. Constructing masculine work identity through narrative 219
16. Stereotyping gender 249
17. Living in therapeutic culture 273
18. Index 303