The Toughest Cook in the Kitchen : Gender, Authority, and Working-Class Discourse(s) in a Hypermasculine Restaurant /

The hypermasculine culture of haute cuisine has been traditionally limiting to women, who tend to leave the restaurant industry or stagnate in their professional growth. With interpretive and descriptive discourse analysis, the study both "spots" the discourse norms of a hypermasculine com...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Droz, Patricia Marie Welsh (Author)
Other Authors:	Balester, Valerie M. (Thesis advisor), Kendall, Shari, 1965- (Thesis advisor)
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[College Station, Texas] : [Texas A & M University], [2015]
Subjects:	Major English. Workplace communication Interactional Sociolinguistics Restaurants Working-class discourse Discourse analysis Masculinity
Online Access:	Link to OAK Trust copy