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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|143 pages
Mechanisms of Hegemony and Control
chapter 3|30 pages
“This Discussion Is Going Too Far!”
chapter 5|21 pages
Managing the Body of Labor
part 2|159 pages
Agency through Appropriation
chapter 9|27 pages
Challenging Hegemonic Masculinities
chapter 10|33 pages
“I Ought to Throw a Buick At You”
part 3|181 pages
Contingent Practices and Emergent Selves