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Challenging hegemonic femininities? The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong
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Schnurr, Stephanie, Zayts, Olga and Hopkins, Catherine (2016) Challenging hegemonic femininities? The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong. Language in Society, 45 (4). pp. 533-555. doi:10.1017/S0047404516000415 ISSN 1469-8013.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404516000415
Abstract
While the notion of hegemonic masculinity has received a lot of attention in recent scholarship, hegemonic femininity remains largely under-developed. We aim to address this gap by illustrating the benefits of using the concept of hegemonic femininities in sociolinguistic scholarship. Conducting a case study on the discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong, we analyse hegemonic femininities at the local, regional, and global level, and explore how they are interlinked with each other. Findings show how these trailing spouses often challenge and reject hegemonic femininities on the local level, but largely accept and reinforce them on the regional and global level. The specific femininities which are considered to be hegemonic are highly context-dependent, and, unlike masculinities, the hegemony of femininities is a matter of internal degree – i.e. certain femininities take hegemonic status compared to other femininities but do not take a dominant position in the gender order.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Language in Society | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1469-8013 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 533-555 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0047404516000415 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 May 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 31 August 2016 |
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