Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays advances that effort by bringing together stellar feminist scholars in the area of language and gender such as Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars, to tackle such topics as African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace. It should have a strong appeal to linguists (sociolinguists, and language and gender scholars), as well as anthropologists, sociologists and those in queer studies.
Introduction: Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies ; PART 1: IDENTITY AS INVENTION ; 1. No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place ; 2. Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories ; 3. Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers ; 4. Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity ; 5. Cnotextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota ; PART 2: IDENTITY AS IDEOLOGY ; 6. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls ; 7. Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor ; 8. All Media are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing ; 9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority ; 10. "Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender ; PART 3: IDENTITY AS INGENUITY ; 11. The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work ; 12. Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative" ; 13. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence ; 14. Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents ; 15. Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity ; 16. Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens ; 17. "She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender ; 18. Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel ; 19. Folklore and "News at 6": Gendered Discourse Domains and Language Planning ; 20. Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games ; Index
