Singing gender: Contested discourses of womanhood in Tuscan-Italian verbal art

Pragmatics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 437-457

  Pagliai, Valentina ^a   Bocast, Brooke S ^b,c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Gender; Italy; Performance; Verbal Art; Womanhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644698936     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.15.4.03pag     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bauman, Richard (1977) Verbal Art as Performance. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press.
2. Bencistá, A. (1994) I Bernescanti: Il Contrasto in Ottava Rima e le Tematiche Attuali. Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa.
3. Briggs, Charles L. (1996) Introduction. In C.L. Briggs (ed.), Disorderly Discourses: Narrative, Conflict, and Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Butler, Judith (1993) Bodies that Matter. New York and London: Routledge.
5. Coates, Jennifer (1993) Women, Men and Language. Harlow, UK: Longman.
6. Del Giudice, L. (1995) Italian Traditional Songs. Los Angeles: Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
7. Eckert, Penelope, and Sally McConnell-Ginet (2003) Language and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. Fretz, R.L. (1987). In performance: Narrating skills and listener responses. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation.
9. Garfinkel, Harold (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
10. Goffman, Erving (1976) Gender Advertisements. New York: Harper & Row.
11. Kapchan, D.A. (1995) Performance. Journal of American Folklore 108.430: 479-508.
12. Kertzer, D.I., & R.P. Saller (1991) The Family in Italy. London and New Haven: Yale University Press.
13. Krause, Elizabeth L. (2005) A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
14. Kroskrity, Paul (2002) Embodying language shift in the Western mono community: Agency, incorporation, and language ideological change. Unpublished paper. American Anthropological Association national meeting, New Orleans.
15. Mendoza-Denton, Norma (1996) 'Muy Macha:' Gender and ideology in gang-girls' discourse about makeup. Ethnos 61: 47-63.
16. Moore, H.L. (1988) Feminism and Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
17. Pagliai, Valentina (2002) Poetic dialogues: Performance and politics in the Tuscan Contrasto. Ethnology Vol. XLI, No. 2, Spring 2002: 135-154.
18. Pagliai, Valentina (2002) Ideologies of art and the formulation of subaltern aesthetic systems in Italian verbal Art. Unpublished paper. American Anthropological Association national meeting, New Orleans.
19. Pagliai, Valentina, and Brooke S. Bocast (2003) Performing hierarchies: Language and gender in Italian verbal art. In Crossroads of Language, Interaction and Culture Vol. 5, 2003.
20. Pastacaldi, M. (1992) ...Se Tu Guadagni Otto e Spendi Nove: Mario Andreini, un Maestro della Poesia Estemporanea. Pistoia: Edizioni Pantagruel.
21. Pratt, Jeff (1994) The Rationality of Rural Life. Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany. Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.
22. Reynolds, Jennifer (2002) 'Puro Rikix:' Nicknaming, shaming and teasing ideologies of parental authority and linguistic purity. Unpublished paper. American Anthropological Association national meeting, New Orleans.
23. West Candace, & Don H. Zimmerman (1991) Doing Gender. In J. Lorber & S.A. Farrell (eds.), The Social Construction of Gender. London: Sage Publications.
24. Zihlman, Adrienne L. (1981) Women as shapers of human adaptation. In F. Fahlberg (ed.), Woman the Gatherer. New Haven and London: Yale UP, pp. 76-111.