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List of figures and tables | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Transcription conventions | p. xii |
Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models | p. 1 |
Language and gender | p. 3 |
About this book | p. 3 |
Linguistic sex differentiation | p. 4 |
Sex versus gender | p. 7 |
Sex and gender as troublesome dichotomies | p. 12 |
Why is language study important for feminism? | p. 15 |
Further reading | p. 17 |
Talking proper | p. 18 |
Women, men and 'Standard' English | p. 18 |
Sex, gender and voice quality | p. 29 |
Further reading | p. 32 |
'Women's language' and 'man made language' | p. 34 |
Early interest | p. 34 |
'Women's language' | p. 35 |
'Man made language' | p. 42 |
Conclusion and lead-in to part II | p. 46 |
Further reading | p. 47 |
Interaction among Women and Men | p. 49 |
Telling stories | p. 51 |
Studying stories | p. 51 |
Story content | p. 52 |
A couple tell a story | p. 55 |
At the family dinner-table | p. 61 |
Generalizing from research findings | p. 73 |
Further reading | p. 73 |
Conversation | p. 75 |
Conversation as a genre | p. 75 |
The conversational division of labour | p. 76 |
Miscommunication | p. 80 |
Politeness | p. 84 |
Men's and women's interactional styles | p. 91 |
Equal but different? | p. 95 |
Further reading | p. 96 |
Difference-and-dominance and beyond | p. 98 |
Deficit, dominance and difference | p. 98 |
The trouble with 'dominance' | p. 101 |
The trouble with 'difference' | p. 102 |
The reification of gender as 'difference' | p. 109 |
Beyond difference: the influence of poststructuralism | p. 110 |
Further reading | p. 113 |
Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance | p. 115 |
Critical perspectives on gender identity | p. 117 |
Why critical? | p. 117 |
Discourse and discourses | p. 118 |
Gender identity and subject positioning | p. 123 |
The discursive construction of maternity | p. 128 |
Examining constructions of gender identity | p. 134 |
Further reading | p. 135 |
Consumerism | p. 137 |
Femininity | p. 137 |
Women and consumerism | p. 138 |
Multiple voices in magazines | p. 143 |
The voice of a friend | p. 150 |
Men as consumers | p. 155 |
Further reading | p. 158 |
New men and old boys | p. 159 |
Masculinities | p. 159 |
Dominance and control | p. 163 |
The importance of being hetero | p. 169 |
Change and resistance | p. 176 |
Further reading | p. 183 |
Public talk | p. 184 |
Women and the public sphere | p. 184 |
Politics | p. 186 |
Broadcast interviews | p. 191 |
Women in charge: dealing with the double-bind | p. 196 |
Media representations of working women | p. 200 |
Further reading | p. 202 |
Language, gender and sexuality | p. 204 |
Queering gender | p. 204 |
Heteronorms | p. 207 |
Homosociality among male university students | p. 209 |
The sexual politics of consent | p. 211 |
Resisting heteronormative identities | p. 218 |
Further reading | p. 223 |
Reclaiming the language | p. 224 |
Sexism | p. 224 |
Modes of struggle | p. 227 |
Counter-resistance | p. 234 |
What is 'political correctness'? | p. 237 |
Further reading | p. 242 |
References | p. 243 |
Index | p. 265 |
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