Cambridge Scholars Publishing Miss Man? Languaging Gendered Bodies

This volume draws together contributions containing original research on a number of linguistic and semiotic understandings of gender in the context of current debates about gender non-conforming people and diverse ways of ‘doing’ masculinities. It contests the constraints, stereotypes, and prejudices concerning gender nonconformity by sparking academic inquiry, possibly leading to social change. The book explores various gender non-conforming tropes as they apply either to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices or to other dimensions of gender non-normative experiences, such as weak or socially-perceived as unacceptable representations of manliness. The volume demonstrates that language matters in the everyday experience of gender diversity beyond traditional gender binarism. By modelling some of the approaches that are now being explored in linguistic and gender studies and by addressing language use over a range of diamesic, diastratic and diatopic contexts, all contributors here discuss cogent issues in language and gender. About the Author Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. His research interests and publications include multimodal critical discourse analysis, humour, masculinity studies, and audio-visual translation. He is the Director of the inter-university research centre, I-LanD, investigating identity and diversity in discourse. His recent publications include Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture (with Paul Baker, 2018); The Discursive Construction of Organised Crime in the Irish Media (2017); and Humosexually Speaking: Laughter and the Intersections of Gender (with Delia Chiaro, 2016). Oriana Palusci is Full Professor of English at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. She has published extensively on women novelists, gender studies, travel writing, utopian literature, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, Englishes, and Canadian culture and literature. Her recent publications include Alice Munro and the Anatomy of the Short Story (2017), Green Canada (2016), and Translating East and West (with Katherine E. Russo, 2016).