This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.

JANE SUNDERLAND is Lecturer in English and Modern Linguistics at Lancaster University, where she is Director of Studies of the 'PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework' programme. She has taught and researched in Australia, China and the USA. She has recently co-edited Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis (2002).