Tables of Contents Information

Spring 2008

Volume XXXI
Number 1
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

Special Issue –

  • Call for Papers 1
  • Guest Editorial 2
  • More on Naming: Latin@s and Related Items 3
  • Narratives of Mental Illness: The “Autobiographical Manifestos” of Kate Millett, Susanna Kaysen, Leah White, and Kay Redfield Jamison 4
  • “It’s Okay to Have a Girl”: Patronymy and China’s One Child Policy Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge and Elizabeth A. Suter 13
  • Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions - 22
    7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
  • The Middle English Verse of Boston Public Library MS 124 Mary Dockray-Miller 23
  • From Women’s Liberation to Their Obligation: The Tensions Between Sexuality and Maternity in Early Birth Control Rhetoric, C. Wesley Buerkle 27
  • Academic Aunting: Reimaging Feminist (Wo)Mentoring, Teaching, and Relationships Laura L. Ellingson and Patty Sotirin 35
  • Constrained by Performance: Like a New Spine from an Old Root, Women Write the Wild, Valerie Czerny 43
  • Obesity and Health: A Textual Analysis of Consumption Product Advertisements in African American and General Readership Magazines Laura C. Prividera and Linda Godbold Kean 52
  • Book Reviews 62
  • Abstracts 69

 

Fall 2007

Volume XXX
Number 2
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • Response to Women & Language, Vol. 30, pg. 54 (objecting to the name Mother Warriors Voice) “Adoption of such a violent, male-identified title is sad,” sent July 25, 2007 by Pat Gowens, Editor, Mother Warriors Voice, p. 1
  • Editorial, p. 2
  • “The lesbian in us”: Fashioning Identity in the Love Sequences of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview and Adrienne Rich’s “Twenty-One Love Poems,” Jennifer Ann Smith, p. 3
  • Accommodating Traditional African Values and Globalization: Narrative as Argument in Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Prize Lecture, Russell Kirkscey, p. 12
  • Recollections in Hindsight from Women Who Left: The Gendered Newsroom Culture, Cindy Elmore, p. 18
  • Women Athletes and Pain: Personhood on and off the Playing Field, Lynn S. Cockett and Johanna M. Holtan, p. 28
  • A Feminist Hullaballoo: Reuniting the Wild Sisters, Karen A. Foss, p. 38
  • Gendered Values and Framing of Public Meeting Announcements: A Research Note, p. 39
  • Book Reviews, p. 42
  • Books in Brief 47
  • Call For Book Contributions 48
  • Publications worth attention 48
  • Film and Other Visual Media 50
  • Official Approval of an Alphabet for Jaqaru 51
  • News and Notes 52
  • Abstracts 57

 

Spring 2007

Volume XXX
Number 1
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • Editorial, p. 1
  • Call for Papers, p. 3
  • Rethinking Ms., Elisabeth D. Kuhn, p. 4.
  • I Will Speak Out: Narratives of Resistance in Contemporary Indian Women’s Discourses inHindu Arranged Marriages, Devika Chawlap, p. 5.
  • Midwife Attended Births in Prime-Time Television: Craziness, Controlling Bitches, and Ultimate Capitulation, by Kimberly N. Kline, p. 20
  • A Yiddish Diva! Requiem for a Fabulous Woman in Avraham Heffner’s Film Laura Adler’s Last Love, by Gilad Padva, p. 30.
  • “Outcast Among Outcasts”: Identity, Gender, and Leadership in a Mac Users Group, by Wendy K. Z. Anderson and Patrice M. Buzzanell, p. 32. 
  • Book Reviews, p. 46
  • Call for Papers, p. 52
  • New and Notes, p. 53
  • Abstracts, p. 56
  • Conference Announcement, p. 63

Fall 2006

Volume XXIX
Number 2
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • "Health as Women’s Work: A Pilot Study on How Women’s Magazines Frame Medical News and Femininity" Barbara Barnett, p. 1
  • " Gender and Expressions of Dissatisfaction: A Study of Complaining in Mixed-Gendered Student Work Groups" Joanna Wolfe and Elizabeth Powell, p. 13
  • "Compliment Topics and Gender" Christopher Parisi and Peter Wogan, p. 21
  • " Masculinity, Whiteness, and the Warrior Hero: Perpetuating the Strategic Rhetoric of U.S. Nationalism and the Marginalization of Women"  Laura C. Prividera and John W. Howard III, p. 29
  • " Gendered Agency: Power in the Elementary Classroom" Lori Baker-Sperry, p. 38
  • Book Reviews, p. 47
  • Books In Brief, p. 52
  • Conference Review, p. 53
  • New Media Notes, p. 53
  • Abstracts, p. 55

 

Spring 2006

Volume XXIX
Number 1
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • Editorial - “Women, Sport and Media, redux”    p. 1
  • “Mothers of Soldiers and the Iraq War:  Justification through Breakfast Shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC”  Sondra Nicole Cappuccio,  p. 3
  • “Female Veterans’ Identity Construction, Maintenance, and Reproduction”    Elizabeth A. Suter, Emily N. Lamb, Meredith Marko and Stacy Tye-Williams , p.10
  • “Universal Invocation”  Sandra West   p. 15
  • “Shojo and Adult Women:  A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Identity in Monga [Japanese Comics]”  Junko Ueno p. 16
  • “Rhetorical Visions of Motherhood:  A Feminist Analysis of the What to Expect Series”  Catherine A. Dobris and Kim White-Mills  p. 26 
  • “Finding Dickinson:  Linguistic Sexism and Inconsistent Indexing in Masterplots”  Nicole Amare p. 37
  • “The Skin is Composed of Two Main Parts”: Subverting Quarantine, Translating Difference in the SARS Epidemic and Jeanette Winterson’s 1993 Written on the Body”  Kelly Wisecup p. 43
  • “Sketching the Prospects: Language and Gender Studies in Georgia” Zaal Kikvidze p. 50
  • Book Reviews p.  52
  • Abstracts   p. 58

CORRECTION: In Volume 28, Issue #2 (Fall 2005), book reviewer Alexis Easley was incorrectly listed as affiliated at The University of Alaska and St. Thomas University. Ms. Easley teaches at St. Thomas University.

 

 

Fall 2005

Volume XXVIII
Number 2
Fall 2005
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • Women and Surnames Across Cultures: Reconstituting Identity in Marriage
    Diana Boxer and Elena Gritsenko, p. 1
  • Pioneering Women” and “Founding Mothers”: Women’s History and Projecting Feminism onto the Past, Kim Golombisky and Derina Holtzhausen, p. 12
  • The Relationship Between Candidate Sex and Pronoun Usage in a Louisiana Governor’s Race, Mary Lynne Hill, p. 23
  • A Treasure Revisited: Rosalie Maggio’s New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, Anita Taylor, p. 32
  • Image Events and PETA’s Anti Fur Campaign. Lesli Pace, p. 33
  • Book Reviews 42
  • Muted Group Colloquium Excerpts
  • Introduction, Ardener’s “Muted Groups”: The genesis of an idea and its praxis, Shirley Ardener, p. 50
  • Muted Group Theory and Communication: Asking Dangerous Questions, Cheris Kramarae, p. 55
  • Feminist Standpoint Theory and Muted Group Theory: Commonalities and Divergences, Julia T. Wood, p. 61
  • Continuing the Legacy of Theorizing From the Margins: Conceptualizations of Co-Cultural Theory, Mark P. Orbe, p. 65
  • Muting and Finding an Asian American Voice, Thomas Nakayama, p. 66
  • Abstracts 73
  • Poetry: Verbal Hygiene, Begoña Echeverria, p. 22

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Spring 2005

Volume XXVIII
Number 1
Spring 2005
Editor: Anita Taylor

Table of Contents

  • Ballots and Bullets: Adapting Women’s Rights Arguments to the Conditions of War, p. 1, Linda Czuba Brigance
  • Naming Women: The Emergence of “Ms.” as a Liberatory Title, p. 8 , Wendy Atkins-Sayre
  • The Myth of Servant-Leadership: A Feminist Perspective, p. 17, Deborah Eicher-Catt
  • Selling Social Status: Woman and Automobile Advertisements from 1910-1920, p. 26, Michele Ramsey
  • Japanese Women’s Perceptions of Sexism in Language, p. 39, Naoko Takemaru
  • Prebirth Gender Talk: A Case Study in Prenatal Socialization, p. 49, Kara Smith
  • Gender and Assertiveness: Bargaining in the Traditional Market in East Java, p. 54, Esther Kuntjara
  • Abstracts, p. 57
  • Book Reviews, p. 62

Fall 2004

Volume XXVII
Number 2
Fall 2004
Editors: Anita Taylor and M. J. Hardman

  • Introduction, page 1
  • War, Language and Gender, What New Can be Said? Framing the Issues, page 3
  • Rhetoric, Patriarchy & War: Explaining the Dangers of “Leadership” in Mass Culture (Mary E. Clark), page 21
  • ‘Pack Your Heat and Work the Streets’ – Weapons and the Active Construction of Violent Masculinities (Henri Myrttinen), page 29
  • Deformities of the Great War: The Narratives of Mary Borden and Helen Zenna Smith ( Laurie Kaplan), page 25
  • A Legacy of Pacifism: Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker (Laurie Vickroy), page 45
  • Boundaries, Borders, and Female Identity in German Women Writers of World War I (Patricia Marchesi), page 51
  • The Limits of Inclusivity: Student Constructions of Germanness in the Wake of the Wars of Liberation (Karin Breuer), page 59
  • Feminine Style and the Rehumanization of the Enemy: Peacemaking Discourse in Ladies Home Journal, 1945-1946 (James J. Kimble), page 65
  • Identity Crisis: Gender, Public Discourse, and 9/11 (Julie Drew), page 71
  • Explosive Baggage: Female Palestinian Suicide Bombers and the Rhetoric of Emotion (Terri Toles Patkin), page 79
  • Rescuing Patriarchy or Saving “Jessica Lynch”: The Rhetorical Construction of the American Woman Soldier (John W. Howard III and Laura C. Prividera), page 89
  • Subverting the Rhetorical Construction of Enemies Through Worldwide Enfoldment ( Kimberly C. Elliott), page 98
  • Poetry
    • Geography Lessons (Patricia Monaghan), page 20
    • History Lessons (Elisabeth Kuhn), page 44
    • Original Guilt (Elisabeth Kuhn), page 58
    • For the Record (Charlotte Otten), page 64
    • Patriot Game (Patricia Monaghan), page 78
    • Friendly Fire (Patricia Monaghan), page 78

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Spring 2004

Volume XXVII
Number 1
Spring 2004
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • In Their Own Voices: Codeswitching and Code Choice in the Print and Online Versions of an African-American Women’s Magazine (Pamela Hobbs), page 1
  • The Politics of Language Acquisition: Language Learning as Social Modeling in the Northwest Amazon (J. M. Chernela), page 13
  • Is Feminist Humor an Oxymoron? (Janet Bing), page 22
  • Sexuality, Eros, and Pedagogy: Desiring Laughter in the Classroom (Angela Trethewey), page 34
  • Death Be Not Proud: An Analysis of Margaret Edson’s Wit (Madeline M. Keaveney), page 40
  • A Case Study of an Intercultural Health Care Visit: An African American Woman and Her White Male Physician (Lynda Dee Dixon), page 45
  • Creating a Rhetorical Home for Feminists in the “Master’s House” of the Academy: Toward a Gendered Taxonomy of Form and Content (Enid M. I. Sefcovic and Diane Theresa Bifano), page 53
  • Book Review: Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization, Ashcraft, K. L., & Mumby, D. K. (Reviewed by Patrice M. Buzzanell), page 63
  • Book Review: From Megaphones to Microphones: Speeches of American Women, 1920-1960., Sandra J. Sarkela, Susan Mallon Ross, and Margaret A. Lowe (Reviewed by Anita Taylor), page 64
  • Gender in Applied Communication Contexts, Buzzanell, P., Sterk, H., & Turner, L. (Reviewed by Laura C. Prividera), page 64
  • Extended Abstract: Regulating Gender Through the Language of Canadian Medicine (Eileen O’Connor), page 67
  • Abstracts of papers from OSCLG & SLA Meetings, page 68
  • Interview with Rosamaría Roffiel (July 16, 2000), Conducted by Clary Loisel, page 74
  • Guest Editorial: Feminism as an Imperialist Construct (MJ Hardman), page 79

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Fall 2003

Volume XXVI
Number 2
Fall 2003
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Bitching and Talking/Gazing Back: Feminism as Critical Reading (Courtney Bailey), page 1
  • “When It’s Deep - You Know It”: Sexuality, Liminality, and Hebrew in Corinne Allal’s Pop Songs (Gilad Padva), page 9
  • “Impossible Speech”? Playful Chat and Feminist Linguistic Theory (Charlotte Kroløkke, Ph.D.), page 15
  • Gender and Swearing: A Community Practice (Karyn Stapleton), page 22
  • Choosing Silence: Defiance and Resistance Without Voice in Jane Campion’s The Piano (Mary M. Dalton and Kirsten James Fatzinger), page 34
  • Talking about Sexual Violence (Stacy L. Young and Katheryn C. Maguire), page 40
  • Announcing the publication of . . ., page 52
  • A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Maternity and Maternity Leave for Women With Disabilities (Patrice M. Buzzanell), page 53
  • Book Reviews, page 66

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Spring 2003

Volume XXVI
Number 1
Spring 2003 (Special Issue: Global Issues in Feminism: Challenges, Opportunities, Insights)
Executive Editor: Anita Taylor
Guest Editor: Deborah Ballard-Reisch

  • Introduction, page 1
  • Communicating Third-Wave Feminism and New Social Movements: Challenges for the Next Century of Feminist Endeavor (Amanda D. Lotz), page 2
  • Postcolonial Theory and the Third Wave Agenda (Angeli R. Diaz), page 10
  • Maintaining Power in the Face of Political, Economic and Social Discrimination: The Tale of Nigerian Women (Aje-Ori Agbese), page 18
  • The Markings Of Women’s Cultural Membership In A Globalized World (Laila Farah), page 26
  • Women and Linguistic Space in Morocco, (Fatima Sadiqi), page 35
  • ‘Bitches,’ ‘Witches,’ and ‘Sluts’: Narratives of Feminist Empowerment in Caribbean Italian Studies (Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio), page 44
  • Communicating or Just Talking? Gender Mainstreaming and the Communication of Global Feminism (Gemma Carney), page 52
  • To Veil or Not to Veil, That was the Question: A Feminist’s Journey Through the Land of Jordan (Marla Del Collins), page 61
  • Back to Basics: The Discourse of Muslim Feminism in Contemporary Egypt (Ghada Osman), page 73
  • “We All Want the Same Things Basically”: Feminism in Arab Women’s Literature (Susan Muaddi Darraj), page 79
  • Feminists Born, Feminists Bred 83
    Dina Dahbany-Miraglia
  • Can We Stand with You? Lessons from Women in Black for Global Feminist Activism (Sandra J. Berkowitz), page 94
  • The Home Side of Global Feminism: Why Hasn’t the Global Found a Home in the U.S.? (Victoria Pruin DeFrancisco, Margaret R. LaWare, and Catherine Helen Palczewski), page 100
  • Multi-voiced Feminism is Messy and Vibrant (Amber E. Kinser), page 110

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Fall 2002

Women and Language
Volume XXV
Number 2
Fall 2002
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Liberte, Egalite, Sororite: A New Linguistic Order in France? (Marie-Marthe Gervais-le Garff), page 1
  • A Female Teacher and Sexual Harassment in a Japanese Women’s Jr. College: A Case Study (Kimiko Akita), page 8
  • Sex-role Stereotypes in TV Programs Aimed at the Preschool Audience: An Analysis Of Teletubies and Barney & Friends (Kimberly A. Powell and Lori Abels), page 14
  • Bonded by Language: Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body (Brian Finney), page 23
  • Book Review: The Color of Rape, by Sujata Moorti, page 32
  • Book Review: Animal Equality: Language and Liberation, by Joan Dunayer, page33
  • Abstracts, page 35

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Spring 2002

Volume XXV
Number 1
Spring 2002
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Hopeful Sentences: Gender and Mourning Language in Two Contemporary Narratives (Jodi Kanter), page 1
  • Feminist Visions of Transformation in The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Orlando (David Natharius and Bethami A. Dobkin), page 9
  • She Designed: Deciphering Messages Targeting Women in Commercials Aired During Ally McBeal (Christine E. Crouse-Dick), page 18
  • The Space Between: Using Peer Threater to Transcend, Race, Class, and Gender (Venessa A. Bowers and Patrice M. Buzzanell), page 29
  • Naming Practices and Gender Bias in the Setswana Language (Connie K. Rapoo), page 41
  • The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, page 44
  • Language-made Paradox: Gender Preferences in Georgian (Zaal Kikvidze), page 45
  • News, page 48
  • Book Review, page 49
  • Call for Papers and Book Notes, page 50
  • Abstracts, page 52

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Fall 2001

Women and Language
Volume XXIV
Number 2 (Special Issue)
Fall 2001
Co-Editors: Anita Taylor and Linda A. M. Perry

  • Paradoxes: No Simple Matter (Anita Taylor and Linda A. M. Perry), page 1
  • The Paradox of Powerlessness: Gender, Sex, and Power in 12-Step Groups (Sandra L. Herndon), page 7
  • Paradoxical Constructions of Self: Educating Young Women About Menstruation (Dacia Charlesworth), page 13
  • Ideological Undercurrents in the Semantic Notion of “Working Mothers” (Fern L. Johnson), page 21
  • Technology, Employed Mothers, and Corporate Colonization of the Lifeworld: A Gendered Paradox of Work and Family Balance (Paige P. Edley), page 28
  • The Female Athlete: Dualisms and Paradox in Practice (Patricia R.W. Clasen), page 36
  • The Paradox of Pumping Iron: Female Bodybuilding as Resistance and Compliance (B. Christine Shea), page 42
  • Sexism, Ageism, and “Disability”: (Re)Constructing Agency Through (Re)Writing Personal Narrative (Maia Boswell), page 47
  • Liberated in the Spirit”: Telling the Lives of Jamaican Women in a Pentecostal Revivalist Church (Sharon Chambers-Gordon), page 52
  • The Rhetoric of Heteroglossia of Jewish Feminism: A Paradox Confronted (Kevin T. Jones, Ph.D. and Rebecca Mills), page 58
  • The Paradox of Women in Zimbabwe: Emancipation, Liberation, and Traditional African Values (Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Paaige K. Turner, Marcia Sarratea), page 66

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Spring 2001

Women and Language
Volume XXIV
Number 1
Spring 2001
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Gender, Expletive Use, and Context: Male and Female Expletive Use in Structured and Unstructured Conversation Among New Zealand University Students (Donn Bayard and Sateesh Krishnayya), page 1
  • Warning: Welcome To Your World Baby, Gender Message Enclosed. An Analysis of Gender Messages in Birth Congratulation Cards (Lynda R. Willer, Ph.D.), page 16
  • Language, Women and Cultural Problems in China (Yang Shu), page 24
  • Managing Rhetorical Roles: Elizabeth Hanford Dole from Spouse to Candidate 1996-1999 (Nichola Gutgold), page 29
  • Book Review, page 37
  • Books in Brief, page 38
  • Book Reviews, page 37
  • Abstracts, page 42
  • Conference Announcments, page 60

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Fall 2000

Women and Language
Volume XXIII
Number 2
Fall 2000
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Mars and Venus: The Rhetoric of Sexual Planetary Alignment (Valerie Peterson), page 1
  • “What is A Feminist?” Students’ Descriptions (Lorin Basden Arnold), page 8
  • “All they Do is Bitch Bitch Bitch”: Political and Interactional Features of Women’s Officetalk (Patty Sotirin), page 19
  • Phenomenological Analysis of the Reentry Experiences of The Wives of Japanese Corporate Sojourners (Masako Isa), page 26
  • Women and Language in the Anglo-Saxon Leechbooks (R.A. Buck), page 41
  • Book Review: Rethihking Organizational & Managerial Communication from Feminist Perspectives, ed. by Patrice M. Buzzanell. Reviewed by Sandra Herndon, page 51
  • Books in Brief, page 53
  • News, page 54
  • Abstracts, page 55
  • Poetry: Redundancy, by Avital Talmor (ms), page 50

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Spring 2000

Women and Language
Volume XXIII
Number 1
Spring 2000
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • The Problem of Paradox: Editorial Reflections (Anita Taylor), page 1
  • Naming Knowledge: A Language for Reconstructing Domestic Violence and

Systemic Gender Inequity (Catherine Ashcraft), page 3

  • Multiple Perspectives: African American Women Conceive Their Talk (Marsha Houston), page 11
  • A Matter Of Voice: Grace Paley And The Oral Tradition (LaVerne Harrell Clark), page 18
  • Narrative Intrusion in Charlotte Temple: A Closet Feminist’s Strategy in an American Novel (Paul Barton), page 26
  • Victory? New Language for Sportswomen (Joli Sandoz), page 33
  • Book Reviews, page 37
  • Books in Brief, page 39
  • Abstracts, page 42

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Fall 1999

Women and Language
Volume XXII
Number 2
Fall 1999
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Colors and Shades Part III: Calling Home (Terri Varner), page 1
  • Brain Sex: How the Media Report and Distort Brain Research (Janet Bing), page 4
  • Gender Sensitivity and Diversity Issues in Selected Basic Public Speaking Texts (Trudy L. Hanson), page 13
  • Gender Issues in Advertising Language (Nancy Artz, Jeanne Munger, and Warren Purdy), page 20
  • “Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?” The Disappearance of Female Broadcasters in War Times (Dafna Lemish and Chava E. Tidhar), page 27
  • Writing From My Body: A Theoretical Exploration (Rebecca Platzner), page 33
  • Book Review, page 37
  • Books in Brief, page 38
  • News, page 39
  • Conferences, page 43
  • Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees, page 44
  • Abstracts, page 45
  • In Search of Sandbox Dreams: Examining the Decision-Making of Disney’s Female and Male Animated Heroes (Carma L. Matti and Joanne M. Lisosky), page 66
  • Hey, lady . . . you’ll have to leave now: It’s long past the time to dump the term as a nickname for female athletic teams (Kim Ode), page 67
  • Poetry: Mother’s Narrative (Avital Talmor), page 36
  • Poetry: Stolen Prayers (Mary Kennan Herbert), page 68

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Spring 1999

Women and Language
Volume XXII
Number 1
Spring 1999
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Why we should say “women and men” until it doesn’t matter any more (Guest Editorial: M. J. Hardman), page 1
  • Forum: What are the Responsibilities of Feminist Academic Publishers? (Anita Taylor, Executive Editor, Women and Language)
  • Bragging, boasting and bravado: Male banter in a brokerage house (Andrea Decapua & Diana Boxer), page 5
  • Reviewers and Commentators, page 12
  • Authors' Response, page 21
  • Madcap Misogyny and Romanticized Victim-Blaming: Discourses of Stalking in There's Something About Mary (Kristin J. Anderson & Christina Accomando ), page 24
  • Artistic Discourse In Three Short Stories By Ann Petry (Nora Ruth Roberts), page 29
  • ‘Wrethen in fere’: Narrative Voice, Gender and Chastity in The Floure and the Leafe (Carl Whithaus), page 37
  • An Interview with Dr. Katherine Hawkins, Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) 1998 Outstanding Gender Studies Scholar, page 44
  • A Note on Oral Interpretation, page 46
  • Linguistics and Science Fiction: A Language and Gender Short Bibliography (M. J. Hardman), page 47
  • Reviews: Between the Covers, by Chris Williamson and Tred Fure (Reviewed
    by Cynthia Lont), page 49
  • Reviews: Keepers of the Earth, by LaVerne Harrell Clark (Reviewed by Benet Tvedten), page 49
  • News, page 52
  • Call for Papers, page 57
  • Conferences, page 57
  • Abstracts, page 58
  • Books in Brief, page 65
  • Poetry: Who The Hell Am I? (Mary Herbert), page 2
  • Poetery: Poecide (Avital Talmor), page 28

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Fall 1998

Women and Language
Volume XXI
Number 2
Fall 1998
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • “Tak[e] the helm,” man the ship . . . and I forgot my bikini! Unraveling why woman is not considered a verb (Catherine Helen Palczewski), page 1
  • “Waiting to Exhale” or “Breath(ing) Again”: A Search for Identity, Empowerment, and Love in the 1990’s (Tina M. Harris and Patricia S. Hill), page 9
  • Where Silenced Voices Speak Out: The Hidden Power of Informal Communication Networks (Stacy L. Young), page 21
  • The Masculine Queen of Beowulf (Mary Dockray-Miller), page 31
  • Rape-Related English And Yoruba Proverbs (Yisa Kehinde Yusuf), page 39
  • Metaphorical Alternatives to Violence - Report from a Workshop (M. J. Hardman), page 43
  • The Girls’ Declaration of Sentiments, page 48
  • Book Reviews, page 50
  • Books in Brief, page 52
  • News, page 52
  • Items of Interest, References and Websites, page 60
  • Abstracts, page 62

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Spring 1998

Women and Language
Volume XXI
Number I
Spring 1998
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Re-visioning Gender and Language Research (Ann Weatherall), page 1
  • Gender Enactment on a First Date: A Japanese Sample (Masayuki Nakanishi), page 10
  • Faculty Perceptions of Classroom Gender Dynamics (Jace Condravy, Esther Skirboll, and Rhoda Taylor), page 18
  • The Ideological Gender Apparatus and Human (Non)Being (Jeffrey W. Murray), page 28
  • Understanding Heterosexism -- the Subtle Continuum of Homophobia (Gwendolyn Griffin), page 33
  • Factors influencing the contrast between men's and women's speech (Malcah Yaeger-Dror), page 40
  • News, page 47
  • Books in Brief, page 50
  • Calls for Papers, page 51
  • Conferences, page 52
  • Films, page 52
  • Articles and References of Interest, page 53
  • Websites, page 56
  • Abstracts, page 57

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Fall 1997

Women and Language
Volume XX
Number 2
Fall 1997
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Editorial Comments & Correction, page 1
  • Leaving Women Out in Left Field: Sports Metaphors, Women, and Legal Discourse (Maureen Archer and Ronnie Cohen), page 2
  • Good listeners: Gender differences in New Zealand conversation (Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe), page 7
  • Bringing the “Culture” Back in: A Culture Building Approach to Gender and Communication (Aki Uchida), page 15
  • Gender Differences in Conveying Embarrassing Information: Examples from Turkish (Sibel Kamisli and Seran Dogancay-Aktuna), page 25
  • “Peter Pan Isn’t a Girl’s Part”: An Investigation of Gender Bias in a Kindergarten Classroom (Karyn Wellhousen and Zenong Yin), page 35
  • Toward An Emotion-Based Feminist Framework For Research On Dual Career Couples (Patrice M. Buzzanell), page 40
  • Women, Language, and the Argument for Education Reform in Antebellum Ladies’ Magazines (John C. Baker), page 49
  • He is the Sun, She is the Moon: A Feminist Sociolinguistic Approach to Teaching the French Language (Claudia Moscovici), page 53
  • Book Reviews, page 59
  • Books in Brief, page 68
  • Resources and Sources, page 71
  • Publications by Members/ Subscribers, page 72
  • News, page 73
  • Abstracts, page 77
  • Poetry: Room at the Inn (K. Michelle Peterson), page 34
  • Poetry: Shadows (Dina Dahbany-Miraglia), page 52
  • Poetry: Songs for Astrid: William Carlos William’s Horse (Mary Kennan Herbert), page 57

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Spring 1997

Women and Language
Volume XX
Number 1
Spring 1997
Editor: Anita Taylor
Co-Editor: Judi Beinstein Miller
Special Issue: Rethinking Gender

  • Appreciation - Casey Miller (Donna Allen and Paula Kassell), page 1
  • Overview (Judi Beinstein Miller and Anita Taylor), page 2
  • Part One: Rethinking the Referents of Gender
    • The Concept of Social Parallax (Nancy J. Finley, and Rose L. Norman.), page 5
    • Reconceptualizing Gender Through Intercultural Dialogue: The Case of the Tex-Mex Madonna (Jennifer Willis and Alberto González), page 9
    • From the ‘Margins’ to the ‘Mainstream’: Gender Identity and Fraternity Men’s Discourse (Scott Fabius Kiesling), page 13
    • To Have and to Be: Sex, Gender, and the Paradox of Change (Katherine Sender), page 18
    • Bodies That Don't Matter: The Discursive Effacement of Sexual Difference (Jody Norton), page 24
    • What Does It Mean to Write from the Body? (Laurie Cubbison), page 31
    • Willa Cather and Brandon Teena: The Politics of Passing (Sherri Helvie), page 35
  • Part Two: Rethinking Gender Expectations
    • Classroom Talk: Coed Classes That Work for Girls (Sara Allen, Anne Cantor, Helen Grady and Pam Hill), page 41
    • Keeping It Straight: The Negotiation of Meanings in the Constitution of Gender and Sexuality (Kathryn Remlinger), page 47
    • School for Courtship (Samuel Irving Bellman), page 54
    • Little Woman (Karen Surman Paley), page 58
    • Notes of a Non-Gendered ‘Ecological’ Writer (Nora Ruth Roberts), page 60
    • Razor Girls: Genre and Gender in Cyberpunk Fiction (Lauraine Leblanc), page 71

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Fall 1996

Women and Language
Volume XIX
Number 2
Fall 1996
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Silence and Violence: The Woman Behind the Wall (Linda D. Wayne), page 1
  • Sharp Necessities (Virginia Brackett), page 7
  • A Case Study of Women’s Literacy in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Oxinden Family Letters (Carol L. Winkelmann), page 14
  • Deconstructing the Patriarchal Palace: Ann Radcliffe’s Poetry in The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ellen Arnold), page 21
  • Gender Differences in the Use of Expletives: A Turkish Case (Zeynep Kocoglu), page 30
  • Why Sexist Language Affects Persuasion: The Role of Homophily, Intended Audience, and Offense (Erika Falk and Jordan Mills), page 36
  • Fanny Fern and Sui Sin Far: The Beginning of an Asian American Voice (Ning Yu), page 44
  • Book Review: Mary Crawford’s Talking Difference: On Gender and Language (Michelle LeBaron), page 48
  • Book Review: June Steffensen Hagen, ed., Rattling Those Dry Bones Women Changing the Church (Roberta Peirce Trooien), page 49
  • Book Review: Sydney McMillen Conger’s Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility (Amanda Carson Banks), page 50
  • Book Review: Andrea A. Lunsford, Ed., Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition (Susan Ross), page 51
  • Book Review: Bridget Elliott and Jo-Ann Wallace’s Women Artists and Writers
    Modernist [Im]positionings (Cécile Whiting), page 52
  • Book Review: Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Hunter’s When Women Stop Hating
    Their Bodies (Cheryl Bartholomew), page 53
  • Book Review: Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Cheryl Bartholomew), page 53

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Spring 1996

Women and Language
Volume XIX
Number 1
Spring 1996
Editor: Anita Taylor
Special Issue: Women and Storytelling

  • Introduction: Women and Storytelling (Joan N. Radner), page 1
  • Women as Artful Narrators
    • Collaborative Group Performance among Three Generations of Women (Tamara L Burk), page 3
    • First Sour, Then Sweet: Women's Ritual Storytelling in the Himalayan Foothills (Kirin Narayan), page 9
    • And She Lived Happily Ever After? (Kay Stone), page 14
    • Charlotte Ross: Portrait of a 'Norrator' (Pat Arnow), page 19
  • Empowerment through Stories of Personal Experience
    • From Autobiography to Collective Biography: Stories of Aging and Loss (Barbara Kamler), page 21
    • Negotiating Power from the Margins: Lessons from Years of Racial Memory (Manju S. Kurian), page 27
    • When the Teller Ends with the Tale: The Story As Metaphor for Feminist Agency (Mary-Jo Haronian), page 32
    • The Clothesline Project: Women's Stories of Gender-Related Violence (Constance J. Ostrowski), page 37
  • Empowerment through the Communal Narrative Heritage
    • Womanhouse: Making the Personal Story Political in Visual Form (Janis L. Edwards), page 42
    • For Yours Is the Power in the Story: The Empowerment of Woman Organizational Actors Through Storytelling (Elizabeth M. Goering), page 47
    • Narrative and Women's Ritualizing (Lesley A. Northup), page 53
    • 'You Can't Do That, You're the Wrong Race': African American Women Storytellers at a Contemporary Festival (Linda Pershing), page 57
    • Body, Memory, and Wordless Stories: The Sam Women and Cambodian Classical Dance Training (Judith Hamera), page 64
  • Poetry
    • And Theirs, Them (Judith Offer), page 20
    • Rapunzel (Nancy Cherry), page 35
    • High Hill Road, North Dartmouth (Maggi Peirce), page 41
    • The World's Smallest Book Group (Judith Offer), page 46
    • Blood on the Machines (Jennifer S. Brantley), page 51

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Fall 1995

Women and Language
Volume XVIII
Number 2
Fall 1995
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Language: Instrument of Change for Japanese Women? (Kathy Wolfe Farnsley), page 1
  • Sexism in Japanese English Education: A Survey of EFL Texts (Tomoko I. Sakita), page 5
  • The Lawyer, the Babysitter, and the Student: Inclusive Language Usage and Instruction (Diana K. Ivy, Laurie Bullis-Moore, Kim Norvell, Phil Backlund and Manoocher Jauidi), page 13
  • Understanding the Ethnographic Encounter: The Need for Flexibility in Feminist Reception Studies (S. Elizabeth Bird), page 22
  • In the Absence of Word and Body: Hegemonic Implications of “Victim” and “Survivor” in Women’s Narratives of Sexual Violence (Tami Spry), page 27
  • Gender, Language, and Power in “The Dream of the Rood” (Emma B. Hawkins), page 33
  • Chartering the Nebula: Gender, Language and Power in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (Gerri Brightwell), page 37
  • The Gentle General: Janet Reno’s ‘Consubstantiality’ with the Press (Maureen Williams), page 42
  • A Feminist Is a What? (Suzette Haden Elgin), page 46
  • Dialogue of the Imaginary (Molly Abel Travis and Jamie Barlowe), page 47
  • Book Reviews, page 51
  • Books in Brief, page 57
  • Abstracts, page 59
  • News, page 64
  • Awards, page 72
  • Conferences, page 72

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Spring 1995

Women and Language
Volume XVIII
Number 1
Spring 1995
Editor: Anita Taylor
Guest Editor: Marsha Houston

  • Women and the Language of Race and Ethnicity (Marsha Houston), page 1
  • Chinese American Women, Language, and Moving Subjectivity (Victoria Chen), page 3
  • Identity and Ideology in Black Women's Talk About Their Talk: A Report of Research in Progress (Karla D. Scott), page 8
  • Gendered Namings and the Ironies of Fieldwork: Notes from Mexico's Gulf Coast (Margaret Villanueva), page 10
  • "From There to Here": Poetic Re/Presentation of Two African-American Success Stories (Deborah Austin), page 16
  • Murky Waters (Tiya Miles), page 21
  • Problems of Translation (Daiva Markelis), page 23
  • Are You Calling Her a Racist? Language, Context, and the Struggle to Better Understand Conflicts Concerning Race (Dawn Abt-Perkins), page 25
  • Facework in White Antiracists' Perceptions of Problematic Interracial Interaction (Lorin Blewett), page 30
  • Toward an Understanding of Agenda-Building Discourse by African American Women: The Case of Lani Guinier (Carmen Manning-Miller and Marsha Houston), page 34
  • Dialogue of the Imaginary (Molly Abel Travis and Jamie Barlowe), page 37
  • Ethnicity and the New Racism in the Basic Interpersonal Communication Course (Eric E. Peterson), page 41
  • “We planted, tended and harvested our corn”: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transculturation in A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (Karen Oakes), page 45
  • Language, Gender, and Ethnicity in Three Fictions by Willa Cather (Helen Wussow), page 52
  • Book Reviews, page 56
  • Books in Brief, page 60
  • Other Books of Interest, page 62
  • Poetry: In the Beauty Salon on Saturday Afternoon (Melissa Prunty Kemp), page 2
  • Poetry: Black Lesbian (Sandy J. Austin), page 22
  • Poetry: This Is For You (Sandy J. Austin), page 24
  • Poetry: Return (Judith Arcana), page 33

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Fall 1994

Women and Language
Volume XVII
Number 2
Fall 1994
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Student Writing and Pronoun Reference: A Study of Inclusive Language in Practice (Felicia Mitchell), page 2
  • Mary’s Entourage (Avital Talmor), page 5
  • Nonsexist Language Reform and “Political Correctness” (Eric E. Peterson), page 6
  • Metaphors in the University, Or I Never Promised You an Ivory Tower (Kristin Bervig Valentine and Eugene Valentine), page 11
  • Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing as Student Observation Guide (M. J. Hardman), page 18
  • Mediator and Client Communicative Behaviors in Child-Custody Mediation (Barbara Lynn Werner), page 21
  • From ‘Motherless Babies’ to ‘Babiless Mothers’: A Sexist Metaphorical Transition of Female Undergraduates (Yisa Kehinde Yusuf), page 30
  • Latest Weapon of Backlash -- Old Words Better Left Behind (Ellen Goodman), page 33
  • The Author Was a Woman? The Issue of Essentialism in The Book of J (Tela C. Zasloff), page 34
  • Young Voices . . . Lost (Robert Johnson), page 40
  • Extended Abstract: Gender Bias in Intermediate Educational Communication (Hollis A. Hoffman), page 43
  • Book Reviews, page 44
  • Books In Brief, page 51
  • Abstracts, page 55
  • News and Notes, page 60

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Spring 1994

Women and Language
Volume XVII
Number 1
Spring 1994
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • Public Expressions of “Progress” In Discourses of the Big Dan Rape (Lisa M. Cuklanz), page 1
  • The Missing Text: Rape and Women’s Sexuality (Helen A. Shugart), page 12
  • Selling the Self: Women and the Feminine Seduction of Advertising (Kristine Blair), page 20
  • Greeting Cards and Gender Messages (Bren Oretga Murphy), page 25
  • Conversation On Line: Girls’ Rapport Talk and Boys Report Talk (Kathleen Michel), page 30
  • The Difficulties of Teaching a ‘Man-made Language’ (Nicole Decure), page 36
  • Creating a Woman’s Life Through Words: A Language of Their Own (Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt), page 38
  • Washing Utopia dishes: Scrubbing Utopia Floors (Suzette Haden Elgin), page 43
  • Women and Media Bibliography (Cynthia M. Lont), page 48
  • Book Reviews, page 65
  • Abstracts, page 69
  • Poetry: Well (Cassie Premo), page 2
  • Poetry: Sherri (Janet Kuyper), page 29
  • Poetry: Mother’s Day (Donata Dettbarn), page 35
  • Poetry: Father’s Tears (Janet Kuyper), page 42
  • Poetry: A Dream of Water (Padmini Mongia), page 47

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Fall 1993

Women and Language
Volume XVI
Number 2
Fall 1993
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • “I am as a Bell that Cannot Ring”: Antebellum women Orators (Anne Mattina), page 1
  • Work, Family, and Social Class in Television Images of Women: Prime-time Television and the Construction of Postfeminism (Andrea Press and Terry Strathman), page 7
  • Sexual Slang and Gender (Michael Gordon), page 16
  • The Anxiety of (Dis)respect: Names and Misnomers in the History of Women’s Institutions (Katherine Hauser), page 22
  • Naming Ourselves (Elizabeth Arveda Kissling and Victoria Leto DeFrancisco), page 29
  • The Abject Maternal: Kristeva’s Theoretical Consistency (Mary Caputi), page 32
  • Reflecting Changing Social Realities Through the Word (Louis Goueffic), page 38
  • Life Insurance Selling: For Men Only? (Donna Dashiell Mayer), page 40
  • Gender Through the Levels (M. J. Hardman), page 42

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Spring 1993

Women and Language
Volume XVI
Number 1
Spring 1993
Editor: Anita Taylor
Guest Editor, Barbara Bate

Part One: Reclaiming Spiritual Histories

  • The Double Meaning of Hestia: Gender, Spirituality, and Signification In Antiquity (Anna Antonopoulos), page 1
  • On Violations and Fragmentations: Feminist Scholarship and Late Medieval Women’s Ecstatic Spirituality (Ulrike Wiethaus), page 7
  • The Voice of a Saintly Woman: The Feminine Style of Julian of Norwich Showings (Linda Rose), page 14
  • Women’s Prayer in Childbirth in 11th Century England (Charlotte Otten), page 18
  • Nursing the New world: The Writings of Quaker Women in Early America (Michele Tarter), page 22

Part Two: Celebrating Connections

  • A Womanly Spiritual Space Within a Patriarchal Place (Helen Sterk), page 27
  • Feminine Images and Religious Consciousness (Elizabeth-Anne Vanek), page 33
  • Retelling Bible Stories to Express the Lives and Struggles of Modern Women (Janet Ruth Heller), page 35
  • Spiritual Deceptions in Art and the Creation of Female Culture (Janice L. Edwards), page 40

Part Three:

  • Jezebel’s Last Laugh: The Rhetoric of Wicked Women (Catherine S. Quick), page 44
  • The Muse’s Dance: H. D.’s “The Dancer” as Spiritual Metaphor (Joyce Owens), page 49
  • Twice Upon a Time in Gertrude Stein’s “The World is Round” (Linda S. Watts), page 53
  • Resurrection in the Rain (Nancy Fitzgerald), page 58

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Fall 1992

Women and Language
Volume XV
Number 2
Fall 1992
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • A Global Perspective of Language and Gender Research: A Bibliography (Alice F. Freed), page 1
  • Marital Naming In the Ohafia Igbo Society (Arua E. Arua), page 8
  • Penguins Can’t Fly and Women Don’t Count: Language and Thought (Janet Bing), page 11
  • Reading a Poem; Response Protocols of Five Adult Women (Angela Scanzello), page 15
  • In the Beginning…Maria W. Stewart: Forerunner of American Women Orators (Gail A. Hankins), page 20
  • Shackled: Angeline Weld Grimke (Patricia Young), page 25
  • Organisms Vs. Machines: Gertrude Buck and the Direction of Early Twentieth Century Rhetorical Theory (Lee Ann Lawrence), page 32
  • Being Philosophical about Sexual Harassment (Debra Bergoffen), page 35
  • Gender and Journalism: Why Garbo is Still Alone, page 36
  • College English handbooks and Pronominal Usage Guidelines Mixed Reactions to Nonsexist Languages (Felicia Mitchell), page 37
  • Book Review: Katherine R. Goodman and Elizabeth Waldstein, Eds., In the Shadow Of Olympus: German Women Writers Around 1800 (Suzanne Kord), page 42

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Spring 1992

Women and Language
Volume XV
Number 1
Spring 1992
Editor: Anita Taylor
Guest Editor: M. Lynne Murphy

  • Introduction: Women and Linguistic Innovation (M. Lynne Murphy), page 1
  • Women and Linguistic Innovation: An Annotated Bibliography (M. Lynne Murphy, with selected bibliographic entries by Rebecca Haden and Suzette Haden Elgin), page 3
  • Places Where a Women Could Talk: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Feminist Linguistic Utopia (Kristina Anderson), page 7
  • Women and Language Choice in A Dakar (Leigh Swigart), page 11
  • An Analysis of Words Coined by Women and Men: Reflections on the Muted Group Theory and Gilligan’s Model (Lynn H. Turner), page 21
  • Eve Names Names: Feminist Neology and How to do It (Kate Musgrave), page 27
  • Forms of Address: Reactions to Changes in Traditions (Cheryl D. Gunter), page 33
  • Research Report Gender, Class, and the State in World War I Berlin (Belinda Davis), page 43
  • LSA Guidelines for Nonsexist Use, page 44
  • A Note Worth Noticing (Fran Holman Johnson), page 45
  • Book Reviews
  • Review Essay: She or He in Textbooks (Deborah Kennedy), page 46
  • Anne Pauwels’ Non-discriminatory Language (Carol Ann Valentine), page 49

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Fall 1991

Women and Language
Volume XIV
Number 2
Fall 1991
Editor: Anita Taylor

  • “Girl” (Jane Maher), page 1
  • “A Manner of Speaking” (Richard L. Gilbert), page 3
  • Language and Sex Bibliography 1991 (Sandra Clark), page 4
  • List of Works Cited in Dissertation (Victoria DeFrancisco), page 18
  • Feminist Pedagogy: Report of the 1991 Conference on Research and Gender Communication (Roseann M. Mandziuk), page 26
  • Who Speaks for the Transsexual (Wendi Danielle Pierce), page 29
  • Book Review: Andrea Press’s Women Watching Television: Gender, Class, and Generation In the American Television Experience (Debra Grodin), page 35
  • Book Review: Julia Penelope’s Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Father’s Tongue (Roland Chrisjohn and Angela Febbraro), page 36
  • Book Review: Dede Brouwer’s Gender Variation in Dutch: A Sociolinguistic Study of Amsterdam Speech (Janice Hornyak), page 38
  • Book Review: Richard W. McCormick’s Politics of the Self: Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film (Susanne Kord), page 39

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Spring 1991

Women and Language
Volume XIV
Number 1
Spring 1991
Guest Editor: Cynthia M. Lont

  • Lesbian Pornography: Cultural Transgression and Sexual Demystification (Lisa Henderson), page 3
  • The Silenced Majority: Women in Israel’s 1988 Television Election Campaign (Dafna Lemish and Chava E. Tidhar), page 13
  • Strategies and Tactics: Teenagers’ Readings of an Australian Soap Opera (Mary Ellen Brown), page 22
  • Television’s Realist Portrayal of African-American Women and the Case of “L.A. Law” (Jane Rhodes), page 29
  • Report from Media Watch, page 35
  • Book Review: Ellen Koskoff’s Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Alan D. Stewart), page 37
  • Book Review: Teruko Inoue’s Reading Women’s Magazines: Comparepolitan--Studies of Japanese, American and Mexican Women’s Magazines (Yasuko Hio), page 39
  • Book Review: E. Ann Kaplan’s Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Cynthia Fuchs), page 40
  • Book Review: Mary Ellen Brown’s Television and Women’s Culture (Norma Schulman), page 41
  • Book Review: Pamela J. Creedon’s Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values (Ann Haugland), page 42

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Fall 1990

Women and Language
Fall 1990
Volume XIII
Number 1
Executive Editor: Anita Taylor
Guest Editors: Anne Balsamo and Paula A. Treichler
Production: Lynne Murphy

  • Feminist Cultural Studies: Questions for the 1990s (Anne Balsamo and Paula A. Treichler), page 3
  • Rigoberta’s Narrative and the New Practice of Oral History (Claudia Salazar), page 7
  • Media, Discourse, and Power (Fiona Place), page 9
  • “Stylistic Ensembles” on a Different Pitch: A Comparative Analysis of Men’s and Women’s Rugby Songs (Elizabeth Wheatley), page 21
  • A Psychoanalytic Reading of a Female Comic Book Hero: Elektra: Assassin (Linda Baughman)
  • Never Cry Bull Moose: Of Mooses and Men, page 27
  • The Case of the Scheming Gene (Susan Kray), page 31
  • The “Space” Behind the Dialogue: The Gender-Coding of Space on Cheers (Charles Acland), page 38
  • When is a Mother Not a Mother? The Baby M Case (Sonia Jaffe Robbins), page 41
  • Precedent and Process: The Impending Crisis of Fetal Rights (Katherine A. White), page 47
  • A Note on the Elimination of Sexism in Dictionaries (Morton Benson), page 51
  • Photo Essay (Kristen Marthe Lentz), page 52
  • Feminism and the Construction of Knowledge: Speculations on a Subjective Science (Georganne Rundbland), page 53
  • Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception (Lata Mani), page 56
  • Women-Centered Media Communication within Nicaragua (Angharad N. Valdivia), page 59
  • Reading the Body in Contemporary Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (Anne Balsamo), page 64

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Spring 1990

Women and Language
Volume XIII
Number 2
Spring 1990
Guest Editor: Cynthia M. Lont

  • The SAT Gender Gap (Leslie R. Wolfe. And Phyllis Rosser), page 2
  • A Review of Research on language and Sex in the Spanish Language (Uwe Kjaer Nissen), page 9
  • Difficult Dialogues: Report on the 1990 Conference on Research On Gender and Communication (Marsha Houston), page 27
  • Report from the Ninth World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA 90), page 31
  • Epistemological and Methodological Commitments of a Feminist Perspective (Marline G. Fine), page 33
  • Who Speaks for Lesbian/Gay Adolescents: Voices to be Silenced, Voices to be Heard (Dean Pierce), page 37
  • Book Review: Micheline R. Malson, Jean F. O’Barr, Sara Westphal-Wihl and Mary Wyer, eds., Feminist Theory in Practice and Process (Joan M Fayer)
  • Book Review: Interrpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives, edited by the Personal Narratives Group (Norma Schulman)
  • Book Review: Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Anita Taylor)

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