ABSTRACT
This volume examines important themes in the theoretical debates on the relationship of language and gender. It analyses this relationship across a range of different disciplinary perspectives from linguistics, literary theory, cultural studies and visual analysis. The focus of the book goes beyond an analysis of women's language to discuss the complexities of gendered language with chapters on lesbian poetics, the language of girls and boys and the relationship between gender and genre.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|34 pages
Position Papers: Difference or Dominance
section 2|59 pages
Lesbian Poetics
chapter Five|9 pages
‘Her wench of bliss': gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack 1
section 3|27 pages
Gender/Genre
section 4|46 pages
Gender, Language and Education
section 5|26 pages
Gender, Language and Children
section 6|52 pages
Language, Media/Visual Analysis and Gender