Gender discourse and the constructionof identity

Discourse is a place of construction of identity. If identity discourses sometimes offend social morality and posit the speaker as abject or social pariah, they nevertheless partake in the construction of communities. This book examines gender discourse and the construction of identity from two axes. The first one, "literary discourses", explores literary works from different geographical, cultural, and political areas to show how discourse helps construct identity and the "universality" of the main theme of this book. The second axis, "discourses from elsewhere", deals with law and cinema, insisting on how the legal framework of a society and the scenarios of films can help produce discourses and subsequent identities.