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
Index