Reinventing Identities

• Introduction: Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies ; PART 1: IDENTITY AS INVENTION ; 1. No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place ; 2. Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories ; 3. Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers ; 4. Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity ; 5. Cnotextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota ; PART 2: IDENTITY AS IDEOLOGY ; 6. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls ; 7. Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor ; 8. All Media are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing ; 9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority ; 10. "Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender ; PART 3: IDENTITY AS INGENUITY ; 11. The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work ; 12. Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative" ; 13. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence ; 14. Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents ; 15. Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity ; 16. Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens ; 17. "She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender ; 18. Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel ; 19. Folklore and "News at 6": Gendered Discourse Domains and Language Planning ; 20. Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games ; Index

Overall, this is an impressive collection, which makes a useful contribution to the reworking of language and gender studies. It is particularly successful in bringing recent feminist theory to bear on earlier feminist and pre-feminist linguistics, and in continuing to bring together research on 'bad subjects'-marginal voices and emergent transgressive identities.