Sammy Beban Chumbow, Professor of Language and Linguistics, University of Yaounde, Cameroon

“An insightful critical analysis of gendered parliamentary discourse that foregrounds characteristic dominant  discourse strategies, arguments and rhetorical devices employed ostensibly to construct, entrench, sustain and a legitimise patriarchal socio-cultural hegemonies, and on the other hand, equivalent discursive  strategies employed by female MPs to resist, counter, subvert and deconstruct dominant gendered discourse in the direction of ‘gender partnership’. This makes the work, an outstanding powerful critical analysis of the discourse of gender and power relations and a major contribution to the gender and power debate in the developing world.”