Table of Contents
Introduction: Why is language a feminist issue?PART ONE: SPEECH AND SILENCE: THE QUEST FOR WOMEN'S VOICES IN CULTURE
Introduction
Identities
1. Felly Nkweto Simmonds -- Naming and Identity
2. Trinh T.
Minh-ha -- Difference: `A Special Third World Women's Issue'
Gender, Language and Literature
3. Virginia Wolf -- Women and Fiction
4. Cora Kaplan -- Language and Gender
5. Sara Mills -- The Gendered Sentence
Further Reading
PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS: SEXIST LANGUAGE AND SEXIST DISCOURSE
Introduction
Theoretical Questions
6. Dale Spencer -- Extracts from Man Made Language 7. Dale Spencer -- Linguistic, Social and Sexual Relations: A Review of Dale
Spencer's Man Made Language 8. Luce Irigary -- Linguistic Sexes and Genders 9. Ann Bodine -- Androcentrism in Prescriptive Grammar The Debate on Nonsexist Language 10. Douglas Hofstadter -- A Person Paper on Purity in Language 11. Margaret Doyle
-- Introduction to The A-Z of Non-Sexist Language 12. Debbie Cameron -- Lost in Translation? 13. Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King -- Gender-based Language Reform and the Social Construction of Meaning 14. Kate Clark -- The Linguistics of Blame 15. Sally
McConnell-Ginet -- The Sexual (Re)Production of Meaning: A Discourse-Based Approach
Further Reading
PART THREE: TALKING GENDER: DOMINANCE, DIFFERENCE, PERFORMANCE Introduction Developing a Tradition 16. Otto Jespersen -- The Woman 17. Robin
Lakoff -- Extract from Language and Woman's Place 18. Pamela Fishman -- Conversational Insecurity Dominance and Difference 19. Deborah Tannen -- The Relativity of Linguistic Strategies: Rethinking Power and Solidarity in Gender and Dominance 20. Aki
Uchida -- When `Difference' is `Dominance': A Critique of the `Anti-Power-Based' Cultural Approach to Sex Differences New Directions: Performance 21. Jennifer Coates -- `Thank God I'm a Woman': The Construction of Differing Femininities 22. Kira Hall -- Lip
Service on the Fantasy Lines
Further Reading
