NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Language & Gender 2nd Edition

[Mary Talbot]

I'm pleased to announce the publication of a second edition. Details in attached pdf file. Table of Contents listed below:

 Contents
 
Part I Preliminaries: Airing
Stereotypes and Early Models
1 Language and gender
About this book
Linguistic sex differentiation 
Sex versus gender
Sex and gender as troublesome
dichotomies
Why is language study important
for feminism?
Further reading
 
2 Talking proper
            Women,
men and ‘Standard’ English
            Sex,
gender and voice quality
            Further
reading
 
3 Women’s language’ and ‘man
made language’
            Early
interest
‘Women’s language’
‘Man made language’
Conclusion and lead-in to part II
Further reading
 
Part II Interaction among Women and Men 
4 Telling
stories
Studying stories
Story content
A couple tell a story
At the family dinner-table
Generalizing from research
findings
Further reading
 
5
Conversation
Conversation as a genre
The conversational division
of labour
Miscommunication
Politeness
Men’s and women’s
interactional styles
Equal but different?
Further reading
 
6
Difference-and-dominance and beyond
Deficit, dominance and
difference
The trouble with
‘dominance’
The trouble with ‘difference’
Beyond difference: the
influence of poststructuralism
Further reading 
 
Part III Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance 
7 Critical perspectives on gender
identity
Why
critical?
Discourse
and discourses
Gender
identity and subject positioning
The
discursive construction of maternity
Examining
constructions of gender identity
Further
reading
 
8 Consumerism
Femininity
Women and
consumerism
Multiple
voices in magazines
The voice of a friend
Men as consumers 
Further reading
 
9 New men and old boys
Masculinities
Dominance and control 
The importance of being hetero 
Change and resistance 
                Further
reading
 
10 Public
talk
Women and the public sphere
Politics
Broadcast interviews
Women in charge: dealing
with the doublebind
Media representations of
working women
Further reading
 
11 Language, gender
and sexuality
Queering gender
Heteronorms
Homosociality among male university students
The sexual politics of consent
Resisting heteronormative identities
Further reading
 
12 Reclaiming the language
Sexism
Modes
of struggle
Counter-resistance
What
is ‘political correctness’?
Further
reading
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