Reinventing identities : the gendered self in discourse / edited by Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang, and Laurel A. Sutton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bucholtz, Mary, 1966- editor.

Liang, A. C., editor.

Sutton, Laurel A., editor.

Series:

Studies in language and gender ; 1.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Sex differences.

Language and languages.

Gender identity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. These essays bring together feminist scholars in the area of language and gender to tackle such topics as African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1 No Woman, No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place; 2 Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories; 3 Good Guys and ""Bad"" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers; 4 Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity; 5 Contextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota; 6 Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls; 7 Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor

8 All Media Are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing9 Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority; 10 ""Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit"": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practice, and Theories of Language and Gender; 11 The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work; 12 Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of ""Women's Narrative""; 13 Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence

14 Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents15 Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity; 16 Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens; 17 ""She Sired Six Children"": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender; 18 Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel; 19 From Folklore to ""News at 6"": Maintaining Language and Reframing Identity through the Media; 20 Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772230-X

1-280-47181-6

1-4237-3876-4

0-19-535214-9

1-60256-333-0

OCLC:

475957415