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Gender Mainstreaming and the European Union: Interdisciplinarity, Gender Studies and CDA

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Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

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I would like to start this chapter by quoting two reference letters, one written for a male colleague and one for a female colleague, both of whom are medical scholars. These letters are part of a large sample collected by Trix and Psenka (2002), and analysed on several levels of discourse.

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    Michelle M. Lazar

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Wodak, R. (2005). Gender Mainstreaming and the European Union: Interdisciplinarity, Gender Studies and CDA. In: Lazar, M.M. (eds) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599901_4

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