Table of Contents

needs: left accent e #13 Mary Bucholtz -- Introduction: Twenty Years After Language and Woman's Place PART I: MECHANISMS OF HEGEMONY AND CONTROL 1 Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Cries and Whispers: The Shattering of the Silence 2 Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Pregnant Pauses: Silence and Authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Hearings 3 Susan-Herring, Deborah A. Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto -- This Discussion Is Going Too Far!: Male Resistance to Female Participation on the Internet 4 Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor -- The Father Knows Best Dynamic in Dinnertime Narratives 5 Cathyrn Houghton -- Managing the Body of Labor: The Treatment of Reproduction and Sexuality in a Therapeutic Institution 6 Mary Talbot -- A Synthetic Sisterhood: False Friends in Teenage Magazine PART 2: AGENCY THROUGH APPROPRIATION 7 Susan Gal -- Language, Gender, and Power: An Anthropological Review 8 Kira Hall -- Lip Service on the Fantasy Line 9 Bonnie S. McElhinny -- Challenging Hegemonic Masculinites: Female and Male Police Officers Handling Domestic Violence 10 Anna Livia -- I Ought to Throw a Buick at You: Fictional Representations of Butch/Femme Speech 11 Laurel A. Sutton -- Bitches and Skankly Hobags: The Place of Women in Contemporary Slang 12 Shigeko Okamoto -- Tasteless Japanese: Less Feminine Speech Among Young Japanese Women PART 3: CONTINGENT PRACTICES AND EMERGENT SELVES 13 Michele Foster -- Are You With Me: Power and Solidarity in the Discourse of African American Women 14 Mary Bucholtz -- From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the Linguistic Reshaping of Ethnic Identity 15 Tara Goldstein -- Nobody is Talking Bad: Creating Community and Claiming Power on the Production Lines 16 Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Reproducing the Discourse of Mothering: How Gendered Talk Makes Gendered Lives 17 Maria Dolores Gonzales Velasquez -- Sometimes Spanish, Sometimes English: Language Use Among Rural New Mexican Chicanas 18 Birch Moonwoman -- The Writing on the Wall: A Border Case of Race and Gender 19 Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Constructing Meaning, Constructing Selves: Snapshots of Language, Gender, and Class from Belten High

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Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall