Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), editor of Language and Gender: Modern Themes in English Studies (2007), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?" The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Third Edition (2008).

List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality 1
Susan Ehrlich and Miriam Meyerhoff
Part I Theory and History 21
1 The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research 23
Mary Bucholtz
2 Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity 48
Bonnie McElhinny
3 Language and Desire 68
Don Kulick
Part II Methods 85
4 Variation and Gender 87
Miriam Meyerhoff
5 Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality 103
Robert J. Podesva and Sakiko Kajino
6 Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research 123
Niko Besnier and Susan U. Philips
7 Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies 141
Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger
8 Gender and Categorial Systematics 161
Elizabeth Stokoe and Frederick Attenborough
9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research 180
Michelle M. Lazar
Part III Identities 201
10 Language and Sexual Identities 203
Robin Queen
11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities 220
Kira Hall
12 Language and Masculinity 240
Bethan Benwell
13 Queering Masculinities 260
Tommaso M. Milani
Part IV Ideologies 279
14 Gender and Language Ideologies 281
Deborah Cameron
15 The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse 297
Susan U. Philips
16 Meaning-Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality 316
Sally McConnell-Ginet
17 A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity 335
Sara Trechter
Part V Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 353
18 Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview 355
Agnieszka Kie³kiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk
19 Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women's Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage 378
Momoko Nakamura
20 Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa 396
Enam Al-Wer
21 Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview 412
Ana Cristina Ostermann and Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
Part VI Domains and Institutions 431
22 Language and Gender in theWorkplace 433
Janet Holmes
23 Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives 452
Susan Ehrlich
24 Language and Gender in Educational Contexts 471
Julia Menard-Warwick, Miki Mori, and Serena Williams
25 Gender and Family Interaction 491
Deborah Tannen
26 Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth 509
Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis
27 Language and Gender in Adolescence 529
Penelope Eckert
Part VII Engagement and Application 547
28 Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization 549
Barbra A. Meek
29 Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer-Mediated Communication 567
Susan C. Herring and Sharon Stoerger
30 "One Man in Two is a Woman": Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts 587
Anna Livia
31 Language, Gender, and Popular Culture 604
Mary Talbot
32 The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years 625
Alice F. Freed
Index 647

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