Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Multilingualism, second language learning, and gender -- 1. Gender, society, and ideology in multilingual settings -- New directions in the study of multilingualism, second language learning, and gender -- Complex positionings: Women negotiating identity and power in a minority urban setting -- Researching women's language practices in multilingual workplaces -- Gendering the 'learner': Sexual harassment and second language acquisition -- 2. Negotiation and performance of gender in multilingual contexts -- "How am I to become a woman in an American vein?": Transformations of gender performance in second language learning -- (Re)constructing masculinity in a new linguistic reality -- Linguistic intermarriage: Language choice and negotiation of identity -- Finding one's voice in Japanese: A study of the pitch levels of L2 users -- 3. Gender in multilingual educational settings -- Gender and public space in a bilingual school -- Cross-cultural excursions: Foreign language study and feminist discourses of travel -- Self-expression, gender, and community: A Japanese feminist English class -- Name index -- Subject index.