Prelude
Chapter 1 Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview

Part I Politics and scholarship

Chapter 2 Language and gender
Chapter 3 Feminism in linguistics
Chapter 4 Difference and language: A linguist's perspective

Part II Social practice, social meanings, and selves

Chapter 5 Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live
Chapter 6 Intonation in a man's world
Chapter 7 Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High

Part III Constructing content in discourse

Chapter 8 The sexual reproduction of meaning: A discourse-based theory
Chapter 9 Prototypes, pronouns, and persons
Chapter 10 "What's in a name?": Social labeling and gender practices
Chapter 11 "Queering" semantics: Definitional struggles

Coda
Chapter 12 Breaking through the "glass ceiling": Can linguistic awareness help?

About the Author

Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University.

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