Language and Woman's Place

Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles.Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.

• Editor's IntroductionAuthor's IntroductionLanguage and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by AuthorPart 1: Context1: Mary Bucholtz: Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context2: Bonnie McElhinny: "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics3: Sally McConnell-Ginet: Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited4: Anna Livia: Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the GauntletPart 2: Concepts5: Janet Holmes: Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman's Place6: Deborah Tannen: Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman's Place7: Penelope Eckert: The Good Woman8: Kira Hall: Language and Marginalized PlacesPart 3: Femininities9: Sachiko Ide: Exploring Woman's Language in Japan10: Catherine Davies: "Woman's Langugae and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One's Own to a Home of One's Own to a Corporation of One's Own11: Jenny Cook-Gumperz: Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman's Place and Language Socialization12: Shari Kendall: Mother's Place in Language and Woman's PlacePart 4: Power13: Miriam Meyerhoff: Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women's Silence14: Susan Herring: Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman's Place15: Susan Ehrlich: Linguistics Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects16: Scott Kiesling: What Does a Focus on "Men's Language" Tell Us about Language and Woman's Place?Part 5: Women's Place17: Judith Mattson Beam and Barbara Johnstone: Gender, Identity, and "Strong Language" in a Professional Woman's Talk18: Toshiko Matsumoto: The New Language and Place of Women in Japan: Reflections on Language and Woman's Place19: Marcyliena Morgan: "I'm Every Woman": Black Women's (Dis)placement in Women's Language Study20: Norma Mendoza-Denton: The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas21: Sara Trechter: Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the FieldPart 6: Sexualities22: William L. Leap: Language and Woman's Place: Blueprint Studies of Gay Men's English23: Rudolf P. Gaudio: They Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman's Place24: Robin Queen: "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar": The Importance of Linguistics Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances25: Rusty Barrett: As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff's Queer Augury

an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of IWPR^ ... The book establishes with authority IWPR^'s status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender.