Table of Contents


Introduction

Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies
Mary Bucholtz, Texas A&M University


Part 1:Identity as Invention

1. No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place
Marcyliena Morgan, University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard University

2. Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories
Kathleen M. Wood, Gallaudet University

3. Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana , Northwestern University

4. Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity
Lisa Capps, University of California, Berkeley

5. Contextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota
Sara Trechter, California State University, Chico


Part 2:Identity as Ideology

6. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls
Jennifer Coates, Roehampton Institute

7. Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor
Caitlin Hines, San Francisco State University

8. All Media Are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing
Laurel A. Sutton, University of California, Berkeley

9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing Against Federal Authority
Rebecca J. Dobkins, Willamette University

10. "Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender
Keith Walters, University of Texas at Austin


Part 3:Identity as Ingenuity

11. The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work
Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University

12. Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative"
Patricia E. Sawin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

13. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence
William Leap, American University

14. Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition Among Latina Adolescents
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona

15. Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity
A. C. Liang, University of California, Berkeley


Part 4:Identity as Improvisation

16. Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens
Rusty Barrett, University of Texas, Austin

17. "She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender
Anna Livia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

18. Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel
Mary Bucholtz, Texas A&M University

19. From Folklore to "News at 6": Maintaining Language and Reframing Identity through the Media
Colleen Cotter, Georgetown University

20. Constructing Opposition Within Girls' Games
Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles