Gender & Language: call for book reviews

[Georgina Turner]

Gender & Language has a number of new and recently published books to be reviewed. We are also keen to commission review essays that engage with multiple (recent) pieces of research and scholarship. If you would like to write about any of the volumes listed below – or want to suggest a review of other relevant books - please contact the Book Review Editor, Georgina Turner, with details of your interest (see email address below).

Communicating Marginalized Masculinities: Identity Politics in TV, Film, and New Media
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415623070/

Gendered Pathologies
http://writing.ucsc.edu/faculty/publications/gendered-pathologies.html

The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415662437/

The Bride of Christ Goes to Hell: Metaphor and Embodiment in the Lives of Pious Women, 200-1500
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14913.html

More Heat Than Light? Sex-difference Science and the Study of Language
http://ronsdalepress.com/more-heat-than-light/

Women Writing Violence: The Novel and Radical Feminist Imaginaries
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book240711?subject=E00&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/impact.33/main

Women's Language: An Analysis of Style & Expression in Letters Before 1800
http://www.nordicacademicpress.com/bok/womens-language/

Seven Stories of Threatening Speech: Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code
http://www.press.umich.edu/3918350/seven_stories_of_threatening_speech

Public Discourses of Gay Men
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415850223/

Gender in Communication: A Critical Introduction
http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235005?bookType=%22Textbooks%22&subject=E00&sortBy=defaultPubDate%20desc&fs=1

The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics and the University
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806671

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Please note that expressions of interest typically outnumber the books available; your patience in waiting for a response is much appreciated. And, while we're at it, apologies for cross-posting.
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