This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak
out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It
considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a
radical break with the historical idealization of silence and
demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and
pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it
actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool
and scold’s bridle are no longer in use to punish women’s speech,
Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more
insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated
‘voices’ of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane
Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and
possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the ‘traumatised voice’ in
television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the
‘unleashing’ of women’s voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways
that women’s speech continues to be trivialized and devalued.
Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering
individuals to ‘find their voice’, but about collectively
transforming the whole communicative terrain.
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Communicative Injustice and Public Speech
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9783030472870
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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