Grace Diabah
List of John Benjamins publications for which Grace Diabah plays a role.
Articles
2013 Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault”: Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel’s sexual assaults Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change, Atanga, Lilian Lem, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland (eds.), pp. 275–298 | Article
Much research on gender-based violence, especially sexual assault, indicate that women are often blamed for their predicament (Ehrlich 2002; Clark 1998). Prominent among the reasons given is ‘indecent dressing’ – which lures ‘innocent’ men to commit such crimes. Context therefore plays a major role… read more
2011 Gendered discourse(s): Liberia’s ‘Iron Lady’ vs. George Weah Living with Patriarchy: Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures, Majstorović, Danijela and Inger Lassen (eds.), pp. 169–194 | Article
Politics is one field in which patriarchy has enjoyed some level of acceptance
over the years. For instance, some researchers (Gidengil and Everitt 1999; Sapiro 1993;
Atanga 2007) have indicated that many people have always perceived politics as the field
for ‘men’. Accordingly, women who… read more