Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality -- Part I Theory and History -- Chapter 1 The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research -- 1. Introduction: Linguistics and Feminism -- 2. Difference Feminisms -- 3. From Gender Difference to Gendered Experiences -- Chapter 2 Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Relationship of Gender to Sex and Sexuality -- 3. Gender as Activity and Relation -- 4. Gender and Political Economy -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Language and Desire -- 1. Theories of Desire -- 2. Investigating Desire in Language -- 3. Conclusion -- Part II Methods -- Chapter 4 Variation and Gender -- 1. Introduction -- 2. First and Second Waves of Variation Studies: Production of Gender Differences -- 3. Perceived Association and Meanings -- 4. Relativising the Generalisations about Gender and Variation -- 5. Form versus Function -- 6. Apparent Gender Paradox in Variation -- 7. The "Cultural" Turn -- 8. Social Constructionist Accounts of Variation -- 9. Situating Variation in Its Social Context -- 10. Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pitch and Intonation -- 3. Vowels -- 4. Consonants -- 5. Voice Quality -- 6. New Horizons -- Chapter 6 Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research -- 1. The Historical Emergence of Ethnography as Method -- 2. The Tools of Ethnography -- 3. Ethnography, Context, and Indexicality -- 4. Ethnographic Research on Language and Gender -- 5. Approaching Language and Gender Ethnographically.

Chapter 7 Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies -- 1. Turn-Taking, Interruption, and Cooperative Talk -- 2. Reviewing CA as a Method for Gender and Language Research -- Chapter 8 Gender and Categorial Systematics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Membership Categorization, Conversation Analysis, and Gender -- 3. Doing Membership Categorization Analysis -- 4. Example 1: Finding Patterns in Categorial Formulations -- 5. Example 2: "Going Categorial" in Sequential Environments -- 6. Example 3: Names as Categories -- 7. Gender and Categorial Systematics -- Chapter 9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis -- 3. Key Principles of FCDA -- 4. Conclusion -- Part III Identities -- Chapter 10 Language and Sexual Identities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Situating the Study of Language and Sexual Identity -- 3. Language, Eroticism, and Identity -- 4. Sexual Identity and Identification -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Footnote Effeminates and Feminists -- 3. The Woman -- 4. Hippies, Historians, and Homos -- 5. Sissies and Tomboys -- 6. Queers and the Rest of Us -- Chapter 12 Language and Masculinity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theorizing Masculinity -- 3. Implicit and Explicit Approaches:When Did Masculinity Become "Marked" in Language and Gender Studies? -- 4. Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Methods -- 5. Hegemonic Masculinity, Performativity, and Other Poststructuralist Accounts -- 6. Methodological Debates, Gender Relevance, and the Limits of Context -- 7. "Gross Out": A "Masculine" Discourse? -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Queering Masculinities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Queer: What is It and What is It Good For?.

3. Queer Troubles in Researching Language and Masculinities -- 4. "Roy Cohn is a Heterosexual Man who Fucks Around with Guys": Queer Positions and Dominant Discourses -- 5. Imagining Queer Futures? -- Part IV Ideologies -- Chapter 14 Gender and Language Ideologies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Representing Language and Gender: Diversity and Change -- 3. Shifting Ideological Landscapes: The Rise of Men and the Return of Biologism -- 4. Representations and Realities -- Chapter 15 The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse -- 1. The Political Roots of the Interest in Gender Ideology -- 2. Gender Ideology in Anthropology -- 3. Diversity in Gender Ideology -- 4. Institutional Contexts for Gender Ideologies in Discourse -- 5. Implications -- Chapter 16 Meaning-Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality -- 1. Semantics/Pragmatics Overview -- 2. Terminological Preliminaries -- 3. Speakers Implicitly Exploiting (or Unwittingly Endorsing) Ideologies -- 4. Hearers Inferring: Ideologically Driven or Ideology-Reinforcing -- 5. Discourse Effects: Ideologies and Getting Things Done with Words -- 6. Return to Content Word Meanings: Ideological Struggles and Changing Contexts -- Chapter 17 A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Revealing Ethnic Gender -- 3. Conflicting Styles -- 4. Use and Construction of Models -- 5. Conclusion -- Part V Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Chapter 18 Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview -- 1. Historical Background: Gender Roles in Poland -- 2. Terminology -- 3. Major Themes in Language and Gender Research in Poland -- 4. Is the Linguistic Gender System "Sexist"? -- 5. "Feminist" Language Reform? -- 6. Gendered Interactional Styles -- 7. Ambivalent Sexism -- 8. Conclusion.

Chapter 19 Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women's Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese Women's Language: Problems -- 3. Historical Discourse Approach to Women's Language -- 4. Theoretical Implications of the Historical Discourse Approach -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 20 Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Arabic and Its Milieu -- 3. Research on Language Use and Code Choice -- 4. Variation in Vernacular Arabic and Gender Differentiation -- Chapter 21 Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological and Organizational Notes -- 3. Variationist Studies in Brazil: Moving Out of Understanding Sex and Gender as Interchangeable and Essentialized Concepts -- 4. Discourse/Interaction Studies in Brazil: Moving Out of the Disciplinary Bounds in the Understanding of Language and Gender -- 5. And What Now? Looking Back and Forward at Studies on Language and Gender in Brazil -- Part VI Domains and Institutions -- Chapter 22 Language and Gender in the Workplace -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of Workplace Interaction -- 3. Small Talk at Work -- 4. Gender and Workplace Identity -- 5. Gendered Workplaces -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 23 Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Tracking Gendered Ideologies in Trial Discourse -- 3. Tracing Meaning Transformations in Women's Accounts of Violence -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 24 Language and Gender in Educational Contexts -- 1. Classroom Interaction Research -- 2. Literacy -- 3. Second- and Foreign-Language Learning -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 25 Gender and Family Interaction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Power and Connection in the Family: Prior Research -- 3. The Ambiguity and Polysemy of Hierarchy and Connection.

4. Mother: A Paradigm of the Ambiguity and Polysemy of Power and Connection -- 5. Power Lines - or Connection Lines - in Telling Your Day -- 6. Self-Revelation: A Gender-Specific Conversational Ritual -- 7. Balancing Power and Connection in a Family Argument -- 8. Gender and Family Interaction: Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 26 Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Binary Views of Gender -- 3. Challenges to Separate Worlds Considering Class, Contextual Variation, and Power in Girls' Groups -- 4. Practices for Negotiating the Social Order in Children's Groups -- 5. Conclusion -- Chapter 27 Language and Gender in Adolescence -- 1. Adolescence as Ideology -- 2. School as Site for the Construction of Adolescence -- 3. Adolescents as Leaders in Linguistic Change -- 4. Policing Adolescent Language -- 5. Conclusion -- Part VII Engagement and Application -- Chapter 28 Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization -- 1. Why Gender? -- 2. The Blurriness of Gender among the Kaska (Athabaskans) -- 3. First Nations' Politics and Aboriginal Language Planning in the Yukon -- 4. Institutions and Axes of Regimentation -- 5. Norms, the Normative, and the Normal: Practical Intersections -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 29 Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer-Mediated Communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Access and Use -- 3. Textual CMC -- 4. Multimodal CMC -- 5. Mobile CMC -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 30 "One Man in Two is a Woman'': Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Male and Female Literary Styles -- 3. Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender -- 4. Gender and Translation -- 5. Implications -- Chapter 31 Language, Gender, and Popular Culture -- 1. Introduction: Popular Culture -- 2. Magazines, Friendship, and Community.

3. Broadcast Talk, Gendered Styles, and Professional Identities.