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Part 1:Identity as Invention

Chapter 1
No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place
--MARCYLIENA MORGAN

Chapter 2
Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories
--KATHLEEN M. WOOD

Chapter 3
Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers
--MARJORIE FAULSTICH ORELLANA

Chapter 4
Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity
--LISA CAPPS

Chapter 5
Contextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota
--SARA TRECHTER


Part 2:Identity as Ideology

Chapter 6
Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls
--JENNIFER COATES

Chapter 7
Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor
--CAITLIN HINES

Chapter 8
All Media Are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing
--LAUREL A. SUTTON

Chapter 9
Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing Against Federal Authority
--REBECCA J. DOBKINS

Chapter 10
"Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender
--KEITH WALTERS


Part 3:Identity as Ingenuity

Chapter 11
The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work
--DEBORAH TANNEN

Chapter 12
Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative"
--PATRICIA E. SAWIN

Chapter 13
Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence
--WILLIAM LEAP

Chapter 14
Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition Among Latina Adolescents
--NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON

Chapter 15
Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity
--A. C. LIANG


Part 4:Identity as Improvisation

Chapter 16
Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens
--RUSTY BARRETT

Chapter 17
"She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender
--ANNA LIVIA

Chapter 18
Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel
--MARY BUCHOLTZ

Chapter 19
From Folklore to "News at 6": Maintaining Language and Reframing Identity through the Media
--COLLEEN COTTER

Chapter 20
Constructing Opposition Within Girls' Games
--MARJORIE HARNESS GOODWIN