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Tables of Contents for Language and Gender
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and tables
viii
Acknowledgements
ix
Transcription conventions
xi
Part I Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models
Language and gender
3
16
Linguistic sex differentiation
3
3
Sex versus gender
6
5
Sex and gender as troublesome dichotomies
11
2
Why is language study important for feminism?
13
3
About this book
16
1
Further reading
17
2
Talking proper
19
17
Women, men and `Standard' English
19
12
Sex, gender and voice quality
31
3
Further reading
34
2
`Women's language' and `man made language'
36
19
Early interest
36
2
`Women's language'
38
7
`Man made language'
45
4
Conclusion and lead-in to part II
49
1
Further reading
50
5
Part II Interaction among Women and Men
Telling stories
55
25
Studying stories
55
1
Story content
56
3
A couple tell a story
59
6
At the family dinner-table
65
13
Generalizing from research findings
78
1
Further reading
79
1
Conversation
80
24
Conversation as a genre
80
2
The conversational division of labour
82
4
Miscommunication
86
4
Politeness
90
7
Men's and women's interactional styles
97
5
Equal but different?
102
1
Further reading
103
1
Public talk
104
26
Women and the public sphere
104
2
Doing a talking job: interviews
106
10
Talking on the net: computer-mediated communication
116
11
More troublesome dichotomies
127
1
Further reading
128
2
Difference-and-dominance and beyond
130
19
Deficit, dominance and difference
130
3
The trouble with `dominance'
133
2
The trouble with `difference'
135
9
Beyond difference: the influence of poststructuralism
144
2
Further reading
146
3
Part III Discourse and the Construction of Gender
Critical perspectives on gender identity
149
21
Why critical?
149
1
Discourse and discourses
150
6
Gender identity
156
4
The discursive construction of maternity
160
6
Examining constructions of gender identity
166
2
Further reading
168
2
Consumerism and femininity
170
20
Femininity
170
1
Women and consumerism
171
5
Multiple voices in magazines
176
8
The voice of a friend
184
4
Femininities
188
1
Further reading
189
1
New men and old boys
190
25
Masculinities
190
4
Dominance and control
194
6
The importance of being hetero
200
6
Change and resistance
206
7
Further reading
213
2
Reclaiming the language
215
20
Sexism
215
3
Modes of struggle
218
7
Counter-resistance
225
4
What is `political correctness'?
229
5
Further reading
234
1
References
235
16
Index
251