Table of Contents

Introduction: Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies, Mary BucholtzPart 1: Identity as Invention1. No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place, Marcyliena Morgan2. Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories, Kathleen M. Wood3. Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana4. Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity, Lisa Capps5. Cnotextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota, Sara TrechterPart 2: Identity as Ideology6. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls, Jennifer Coates7. Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor, Caitlin Hines8. All Media are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing, Laurel A. Sutton9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority, Rebecca J. Dobkins10. "Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender, Keith WaltersPart 3: Identity as Ingenuity11. The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work, Deborah Tannen12. Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative", Patricia E. Sawin13. Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence, William Leap14. Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents, Norma Mendoza-Denton15. Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity, A.C. Liang16. Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens, Rusty Barrett17. "She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender, Anna Livia18. Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel, Mary Bucholtz19. Folklore and "News at 6": Gendered Discourse Domains and Language Planning, Colleen Cotter20. Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games, Marjorie Harness GoodwinIndex