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Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse (1999)
Edited by Mary Bucholtz, A. C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton
An interdisciplinary collection of innovative studies in language and gender, Reinventing Identities brings together scholars from linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, and other fields to examine how language, gender, and sexuality interact with other dimensions of identity. The volume also has a supplementary website with data from the studies, links, and other information of interest to scholars and students.
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By Anna Livia
Revisiting and revolutionizing the foundational debate within language and gender studies over gendered pronouns, Pronoun Envy examines the ways in which pronouns and other gender marking have been used strategically for feminist political goals as well as for the construction of gendered and sexual identities that challenge the binary sex/gender system. Livia draws on a range of texts in both English and French, from feminist science fiction to transsexual autobiography, to demonstrate that linguistic gender can be creatively exploited in the production of social gender.
An online review of Pronoun Envy is available on the Linguist List.
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By Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz
The publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's groundbreaking book Language and Woman's Place by Harper & Row in 1975 has long been heralded as the beginning of the linguistic subfield of language and gender studies, as well as ushering in the study of language and gender in related disciplines. A reassessment of Lakoff's book in the past decade has led scholars to read the text with greater sensitivity to the intellectual and political climate in which it was written and to express renewed appreciation for the valuable contributions it makes not only to the history of language and gender research but also its present and future development. The volume makes considerable progress both toward addressing the omissions and errors in previous treatments of Lakoff's work and toward demonstrating the book's utility for contemporary scholarship.
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Edited by Shigeko Okamoto and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith
Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology is a collection of previously unpublished articles by established as well as promising young scholars in Japanese language and gender studies. The contributors to this edited volume argue that traditional views of language in Japan are cultural constructs created by policy makers and linguists, and that Japanese society in general, and language use in particular, are much more diverse and heterogeneous than previously understood. This volume brings together studies that substantially advance our understanding of the relationship between Japanese language and gender, with particular focus on examining local linguistic practices in relation to dominant ideologies.
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