Talking Young Femininities

PIA PICHLER is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has published work in the area of language and gender and on the linguistic construction of identity, with a particular focus on the interplay of local identity practices with gender, ethnicity and social class. She is co-editor of Gender and Spoken Interaction.

• Acknowledgements Transcription Conventions Girls' Talk as a Resource for Identity Construction PART I: TALKING YOUNG FEMININITIES: IDENTITY AND THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN GENDER, ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL CLASS Cool and Socially Aware Private School Girls Sheltered But Independent East End Girls Tough and Respectable British Bangladeshi Girls PART II: SEX TALK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF YOUNG FEMININITIES Self-disclosing Sex Talk: self-determined Girls Playful Sex Talk: 'Good Girls' and 'Bad Girls' Impersonal Sex Talk: Knowing Girls Conclusions Bibliography Index

Shortlisted for the International Gender and Language Book Prize 2010