Written by leading specialists in the field The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality is a collection of articles examining the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. The handbook has been extensively updated with a new introduction and chapters focusing on key themes and issues across historical periods, and methodologies and cutting-edge research topics in the field today. In-depth overviews explore the study of language and gender worldwide, and the collection features data and case studies from interactions across a range of social contexts and communities. This comprehensive resource provides a state-of-the-art overview of language and gender for established scholars and an essential introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality - Susan Ehrlich and Miriam Meyerhoff
• Part I Theory and History
• 1 The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research - Mary Bucholtz
• 2 Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity - Bonnie McElhinny
• 3 Language and Desire - Don Kulick
• Part II Methods
• 4 Variation and Gender - Miriam Meyerhoff
• 5 Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality - Robert J. Podesva and Sakiko Kajino
• 6 Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research - Niko Besnier and Susan U. Philips
• 7 Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies - Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger
• 8 Gender and Categorial Systematics - Elizabeth Stokoe and Frederick Attenborough
• 9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research - Michelle M. Lazar
• Part III Identities
• 10 Language and Sexual Identities - Robin Queen
• 11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities - Kira Hall
• 12 Language and Masculinity - Bethan Benwell
• 13 Queering Masculinities - Tommaso M. Milani
• Part IV Ideologies
• 14 Gender and Language Ideologies - Deborah Cameron
• 15 The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse - Susan U. Philips
• 16 Meaning-Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality - Sally McConnell-Ginet
• 17 A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity - Sara Trechter
• Part V Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• 18 Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview - Agnieszka KieÅ‚kiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk
• 19 Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women’s Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage - Momoko Nakamura
• 20 Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa - Enam Al-Wer
• 21 Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview - Ana Cristina Ostermann and Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes
• Part VI Domains and Institutions
• 22 Language and Gender in theWorkplace - Janet Holmes
• 23 Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives - Susan Ehrlich
• 24 Language and Gender in Educational Contexts - Julia Menard-Warwick, Miki Mori, and Serena Williams
• 25 Gender and Family Interaction - Deborah Tannen
• 26 Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth - Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis
• 27 Language and Gender in Adolescence - Penelope Eckert
• Part VII Engagement and Application
• 28 Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization - Barbra A. Meek
• 29 Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer-Mediated Communication - Susan C. Herring and Sharon Stoerger
• 30 “One Man in Two is aWoman”: Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts - Anna Livia
• 31 Language, Gender, and Popular Culture - Mary Talbot
• 32 The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years - Alice F. Freed