{"product_id":"language-attitudes-national-identity-and-mandie-iveson-9781845199234","title":"Language Attitudes, National Identity and Migration in Catalonia: What the Women Have to Say","description":"This book examines language, nation and identity from a gendered perspective and investigates to what extent women use Catalan in their everyday social practices to construct gendered and national identities. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, the focus of the study is three female generations, covering 50 years of historical change from the 1960s to the present. What the Women Have to Say analyses the preservation of the Catalan language during Francos regime; how the emergence of a feminist movement and discourse, and changing patterns of migration, have transformed the relationship between gender and national identity in Catalonia; and the role that Catalan plays today in defining womens identities and as a nation-building tool. Additional analysis of a corpus of social media data explores the online Catalan discourses of nationalism and its gendered dimensions. A central interpretative tool is the concept of intersectionality, emphasising genders\u003cbr\u003einter-connectedness with catego\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mandie Iveson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1845199235\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781845199234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMandie Iveson is a lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Brighton having previously been a visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton. Her research interests include gender, nationalism, the role of language in identity formation, discourse analysis and digital communications. A paper on gendered dimensions of Catalan nationalism on social media was published in Discourse \u0026amp; Communication (2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mandie Iveson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125460562175,"sku":"9781845199234","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84b2cd80-b494-40e0-a061-db3f2e278e08.jpg?v=1687442754","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/language-attitudes-national-identity-and-mandie-iveson-9781845199234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}