Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: On language and sexual politics Part 1: The Sexual Politics of Representation 1. Sexism and Semantics (1984) 2. Nonsexist Language: Lost in Translation? (1995) 3. Language, Sexism and Advertising Standards (2004) Part 2: Power and Difference 4. Lakoff in Context: The Form and Function of Tag Wuestions (with Fiona McAlinden and Kathy O’Leary, 1988) 5. Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity (1997) 6. ‘Is there any ketchup, Vera?’ Gender, Power and Pragmatics (1998 ) Part 3: Ideologies of Language and Gender 7. Verbal Hygiene for Women: Linguistics Misapplied? (1994) 8. Styling the Worker: Gender and the Commodification of Language in the Globalized Service Economy (2000) 9. Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth (2003) Part 4: Language, Gender and Sexuality 10. Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture and Terms for the Penis among American College Students (1992) 11. Straight Talking: The Sociolinguistics of Heterosexuality (2002) Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Deborah Cameron currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Chair of Language and Communication at Oxford University. A sociolinguist and feminist, she is the author of Verbal Hygiene (1995) and The Feminist Critique of Language (1998), and co-author with Don Kulick of Language and Sexuality (2003).

Reviews

'I am daunted to be writing a review of a book that says everything so well... The entire book would be an excellent resource for a language and gender, sociolinguistics, or gender studies course... All of this in Cameron's desert-sky clear prose, coupled with her forceful argumentation, will engage students into the field in a way that a that a textbook wouldnot.'- Scott F.Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USA