Cultural Ideologies in Japanese Language and Gender Studies: A Theoretical Review

Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 23-37

  Yukawa, Sumiyuki ^a   Saito, Masami ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

developments; discourse; feminist; social; theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 85188382735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195166170.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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