This book showcases the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis.

1. An introduction to conversation and gender Susan A. Speer and Elizabeth Stokoe; Part I. Gender, Person Reference and Self-Categorization: 2. The gendered 'I' Clare Jackson; 3. Categories in talk-in-interaction: gendering speaker and recipient Victoria Land and Celia Kitzinger; 4. Doing gender categorization: non-recognitional person reference and the omnirelevance of gender Noa Logan Klein; Part II. Gender, Repair and Recipient Design: 5. 'Girl - woman - sorry!': on the repair and non-repair of consecutive gender categories Elizabeth Stokoe; 6. Gender, routinization and recipient design Sue Wilkinson; 7. Recipients designed: tag questions and gender Alexa Hepburn and Jonathan Potter; Part III. Gender and Action Formation: 8. On the role of reported, third party compliments in passing as a 'real' woman Susan A. Speer; 9. 'D'you understand that honey?': gender and participation in conversation Jack Sidnell; 10. Bids and responses to intimacy as 'gendered' enactments Wayne A. Beach and Phillip Glenn; Part IV. Gender Identities and Membership Categorization Practices: 11. Accomplishing a cross-gender identity: a case of passing in children's talk-in-interaction Carly W. Butler and Ann Weatherall; 12. Engendering children's play: person reference in children's conflictual interaction Marjorie Harness Goodwin; 13. Being there for the children: the collaborative construction of gender inequality in divorce mediation Angela Cora Garcia and Lisa M. Fisher; 14. Gender as a practical concern in children's management of play participation Jakob Cromdal.