Table of Contents

Part 1: LANGUAGE, REPRESENTATION, AND HEGEMONY
1: Language: A socio-political phenomenon
2: Power and politics of discourse
3: Language, representation, and control
Part 2: LANGUAGE AND GENDER CONSTRUCTION
4: Manufacturing gender and role of language
5: Growing up with gender
6: Language and gender: Revisiting research
Part 3: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND PERFORMANCE
7: Literature and politics of exclusion
8: Sayings, proverbs, and women
9: Gender and jokes
10: Matrimonial ads: societal expectations
Part 4: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND EDUCATION
11: Gender and education
12: Nursery rhymes and gender representation
13: Representation of women in fairy tales
Part 5: LANGUAGE, GENDER, AND MEDIA
14: Gender and media
15: Women in advertisements
16: TV plays and gender stereotypes
17: Construction of gender in films
18: Representation of women in songs
Part 6: GENDERED DISCOURSE: REFORM AND RESISTANCE
19: Representation of women in songs
20: Resistance through language
Bibliography

About the Author

Dr Shahid Siddiqui obtained his Ph.D. in Language Education from the University of Toronto, Canada and M.Ed. TESOL from the University of Manchester, U.K. He has been involved with the educational system of Pakistan as a teacher, teacher educator, and researcher. He has worked in some prestigious universities such as the Aga Khan University (AKU), GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, and Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). Presently he
is Professor and Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Lahore School of Economics (LSE). His areas of interest include socio-cultural aspects of language, gender, educational change, and
critical pedagogy. His published books include, Rethinking Education in Pakistan: Perceptions, Practices, and Possibilities (2007), Adhe Adhoore Khawab (an Urdu novel), and forthcoming Education, Development, and Freedom.