ABSTRACT

Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research.

Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of "men's language," the literary representation of lesbian discourse, the silencing of women on the Internet, cultural mediation and Spanish use at New Mexican weddings and the uses of silence in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

Twenty Years after Language and Woman's Place

part 1|143 pages

Mechanisms of Hegemony and Control

chapter 1|26 pages

Cries and Whispers

The Shattering of the Silence

chapter 2|16 pages

Pregnant Pauses

Silence and Authority in the Anita Hill–Clarence Thomas Hearings

chapter 3|30 pages

“This Discussion Is Going Too Far!”

Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet

chapter 5|21 pages

Managing the Body of Labor

The Treatment of Reproduction and Sexuality in a Therapeutic Institution

chapter 6|23 pages

A Synthetic Sisterhood

False Friends in a Teenage Magazine

part 2|159 pages

Agency through Appropriation

chapter 7|14 pages

Language, Gender, and Power

An Anthropological Review

chapter 8|34 pages

Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines

chapter 9|27 pages

Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities

Female and Male Police Officers Handling Domestic Violence

chapter 10|33 pages

“I Ought to Throw a Buick At You”

Fictional Representations of Butch/Femme Speech

chapter 11|18 pages

Bitches and Skankly Hobags

The Place of Women in Contemporary Slang

chapter 12|29 pages

“Tasteless” Japanese

Less “Feminine” Speech Among Young Japanese Women

part 3|181 pages

Contingent Practices and Emergent Selves

chapter 13|22 pages

“Are You With Me?”

Power and Solidarity in the Discourse of African American Women

chapter 14|23 pages

From Mulatta to Mestiza

Passing and the Linguistic Reshaping of Ethnic Identity

chapter 15|26 pages

“Nobody Is Talking Bad”

Creating Community and Claiming Power on the Production Lines

chapter 16|19 pages

Reproducing the Discourse of Mothering

How Gendered Talk Makes Gendered Lives Jenny Cook-Gumperz

chapter 17|26 pages

Sometimes Spanish, Sometimes English

Language Use among Rural New Mexican Chicanas

chapter 18|21 pages

The Writing on the Wall

A Border Case of Race and Gender Birch Moonwomon

chapter 19|39 pages

Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves

Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High