Table of Contents
Introduction
Language, gender and economies in global transitions: Provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated Bonnie McElhinny 1
Scattered hegemonies
Symbolically central and materially marginal: Women's talk in a Tongan work group Susan U. Philips 41
"Re-employment stars": Language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China Jie Yang 77
When Aboriginal equals "at risk": The impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families Susanne Miskimmin 107
Emerging into history
Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India: On agency and the politics of voice Amanda Weidman 131
Echoes of modernity: Nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan Miyako Inoue 157
Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines: Erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality Bonnie McElhinny 205
Out on video: Gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic Northern Nigeria Rudolf P. Gaudio 237
Multilingualism, globalization and nationalism
Gender and bilingualism in the new economy Monica Heller 287
African women in Catalan language courses: Struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism JoanPujolar 305
Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam Binh Nguyen 349
Commodities and cosmopolitanism
Shop talk: Branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction Mary Bucholtz 371
Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China: Language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing Qing Zhang 403
Gender and interaction in a globalizing world: Negotiating the gendered self in Tonga Niko Besnier 423
Subject Index 447
Author Index 454
