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In the past decade, the subfield of linguistics known as language and gender studies has undergone an intellectual renaissance. From its original concern with sexist language in the 1970s and the 1980s' debate over "difference" and "dominance" models, language and gender research in the new millennium has developed its links to feminist and social theory and expanded its scope to include the interaction of gender with race, ethnicity, sexuality, social class, nationality, and other dimensions of social identity. This new body of work builds on the foundations of earlier research while integrating key insights of recent theory. Such research has interdisciplinary relevance: where previous work in language and gender was primarily directed at and read by linguists, current scholarship addresses a much wider audience, offering insights not only to linguists but to researchers in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, gender studies, and related disciplines.
Oxford University Press's series Studies in Language and Gender offers a broad-based interdisciplinary forum for the best new scholarship in the field. The mandate of the series is to encourage innovative work on language and gender, a goal that may be achieved through the revisitation of familiar topics from fresh vantage points, through the introduction of new avenues of research, or through new theoretical or methodological frameworks. Volumes may be authored by scholars in such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, literary studies, education, psychology, ethnic studies, and women's studies, as well as linguistics. In addition, monographs, textbooks, and edited collections that fit the series's emphasis on innovation are appropriate for inclusion.