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03411aam a2200421 i 4500 001 9A3E0AF6403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 200220s2020 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019058889 020 $a 1107080886 020 $a 9781107080881 035 $a (OCoLC)1123186502 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HQ1236 $b .S48 2020 100 1 $a Shaw, Sylvia, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Women, language and politics / $c Sylvia Shaw, University of Westminster. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xix, 319 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index. 520 $a "On the 7th February 2017, Senator Mitch McConnell read the statement below in an attempt to justify the silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren's earlier speech in the US Senate: Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted. (Senator Mitch McConnell, U.S, Senate on 7th February 2017)1 This statement and subsequent reactions to it encapsulate many of the issues raised in this study of women, language and politics. First, it is a statement made by a man in a political institution referring to invoking formal rules to justify the collective and institutional silencing of the speech of a woman politician, having already silenced her on the floor of the chamber by a series of interruptions. Second, it is about the interpretation and application of institutional rules as a controlling mechanism with which to silence. Elizabeth Warren's speech had criticised the appointment of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General by reading out previous objections to his appointment as a federal court judge in 19862. The citing of these objections to Sessions' appointment was deemed to have broken a rule3 which prohibits ascribing to a Senator any 'conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator'. However, the application of these rules is not clear-cut and involves subjective judgements, with this particular rule being conventionally viewed as an edict that is rarely enforced (Jacobson 2017). Further doubt about the enforcement of the rule rested on the fact that a male colleague of Warren's subsequently read out the same objections from 1986 on the floor of the senate - in full and without censure4"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women $x Political activity. 650 0 $a Women politicians. 650 0 $a Sex role $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Feminism $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Sexism in political culture. 650 0 $a Male domination (Social structure) 650 7 $a Feminism $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922695 650 7 $a Male domination (Social structure) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01741391 650 7 $a Sex role $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114616 650 7 $a Sexism in political culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01744296 650 7 $a Women $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01734136 650 7 $a Women politicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178383 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781108889582 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721013643.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9A3E0AF6403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search