Language/Gender Ethnographies

[Christina Wasson]

I just wanted to thank everyone who recommended ethnographies dealing with
language, gender and power.  I received suggestions from Deborah
Keller-Cohen, Gloria Nardini, Kristine Fitch, Danny Rosenblatt, Scott
Kiesling, and Bonnie McElhinny.  The books recommended were:

Margaret Finders book on girls reading teen magazines (at least that's part
of the content)

Nardini, Gloria.  Che Bella Figura!  The Power of Performance in a Ladies'
Club in Chicago.

Fitch, Kristine. 1998. Speaking relationally: culture, communication and
interpersonal connection.

Donna Eder, Catherine Colleen Evans, Stephen Parker. 1995. School talk:
gender and adolescent culture.

Bonnie McElhinny's dissertation

Cindy McLemore's dissertation

Scott Kiesling's dissertation or articles

He-Said-She-Said. (Goodwin)

Listen to the Heron's Words. (Gloria Goodwin Raheja & Ann Gold)

Constructing Panic (Capps and Ochs)

Deborah Kapchan's Gender on the Market

Linguistic Variation and Social Practice (Penny Eckert's brand new
book)

Gender Play. (Barrie Thorne)

Two Languages at Work:  Bilingual Life on the Production Floor (Tara
Goldstein)
        on the discourse of  Portuguese women working in a Canadian factory

Women in the American Welfare Trap (Kingfisher)

Tannen's two books (You Just Don't Understand, Talking from 9 to 5)


The books that I have decided to use are Goodwin's He-Said-She-Said and
Kapchan's Gender on the Market.

Cheers,
Christina

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Christina Wasson, Visiting Assistant Professor
Anthropology Program, DePaul University