List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Sara Mills Section 1: Position Papers: Difference or Dominance 1. Language, gender and career, Jennifer Coates 2. Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s, Deborah Cameron Section 2: Lesbian Poetics 3. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival, Liz Yorke 4. Sappho and the other woman, Margaret Williamson 5. 'Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, Deborah Tyler-Bennett Section 3: Gender/Genre 6. Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popular fiction, Jenny Wolmark 7. Claiming the speakwrite: linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia, Elisabeth Mahoney Section 4: Gender, Language and Education 8.

Feminising classroom talk?, Joan Swann and David Graddol 9. Primary school teachers' explanation of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum, Cleopatra Altani 10. 'We're boys, miss!': finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom, Jane Sunderland Section 5: Gender, Language and Children 11. Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11 year old boys in a Lebanese rural community, Farida Abu-Haidar 12. Voice and gender in children, Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn Section 6: Language Media/Visual Analysis and Gender 13. Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith 14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard 15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen Mills Conclusions, Sara Mills Bibliography Indext dystopia, Elisabeth Mahoney Section 4: Gender, Language and Education 8.

Feminising classroom talk?, Joan Swann and David Graddol 9. Primary school teachers' explanation of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum, Cleopatra Altani 10. 'We're boys, miss!': finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom, Jane Sunderland Section 5: Gender, Language and Children 11. Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11 year old boys in a Lebanese rural community, Farida Abu-Haidar 12. Voice and gender in children, Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn Section 6: Language Media/Visual Analysis and Gender 13. Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith 14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard 15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen Mills Conclusions, Sara Mills Bibliography Indexd Gender 13.

Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith 14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard 15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen Mills Conclusions, Sara Mills Bibliography Index.