Feminist Dystopia Research Articles

Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Sara Mills Section 1: Position Papers: Difference or Dominance 1. Language, gender and career, Jennifer Coates 2. Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s, Deborah Cameron Section 2: Lesbian Poetics 3. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival, Liz Yorke 4. Sappho and the other woman, Margaret Williamson 5. 'Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, Deborah Tyler-Bennett Section 3: Gender/Genre 6. Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popular fiction, Jenny Wolmark 7. Claiming the speakwrite: linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia, Elisabeth Mahoney Section 4: Gender, Language and Education 8. Feminising classroom talk?, Joan Swann and David Graddol 9. Primary school teachers' explanation of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum, Cleopatra Altani 10. 'We're boys, miss!': finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom, Jane Sunderland Section 5: Gender, Language and Children 11. Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11 year old boys in a Lebanese rural community, Farida Abu-Haidar 12. Voice and gender in children, Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn Section 6: Language Media/Visual Analysis and Gender 13. Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith 14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard 15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen Mills Conclusions, Sara Mills Bibliography Index