Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.

Introduction: Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism - Katie Wales
In Defence of Celia: Discourse Analysis and Women's Discourse in As You Like It - Clara Calvo
Language in Common: Apposition in Contemporary Poetry by Women - Lesley Jeffries
Gendered Writing and the Writer's Stylistic Identity - Marion Lomax
And Then He Kissed Her: The Reclamation of Female Characters to Submissive Roles in Contemporary Fiction - Shan Wareing
Close Encounters of a Feminist Kind: Transitivity Analysis and Pop Lyrics - Sara Mills
From Queens to Convicts: Status, Sex and Language in Contemporary British Women's Drama - Anne Varty
Women, Men and Words: Lexical Choices in Two Fairy Tales of the 1920s - Louise Sylvester