Reinventing Identities

Language in Society Overall, this is an impressive collection, which makes a useful contribution to the reworking of language and gender studies. It is particularly successful in bringing recent feminist theory to bear on earlier feminist and pre-feminist linguistics, and in continuing to bring together research on 'bad subjects'-marginal voices and emergent transgressive identities.


marginal voices and emergent transgressive identities, Language in Society Given the maturity of language and gender as afield of study, a series devoted to it is long overdue and most welcome. The maturity of the field is reflected in the scope of the first volume on identity formation and in its engagement with theory. . .A valuable and engaging feature of the book is that, at the same time as it contributes to the consolidation of new theoretical positions, it does not lose touch with earlier 'moments' in the field of language and
gender. . .This is an impressive collection, which makes a useful contribution to the reworking of language and gender studies. It is particularly successful in bringing recent feminist theory to bear on earlier feminist and pre-feminist linguistics, and in continuing to bring together research on 'bad
subjects'?

Introduction: Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies; PART 1: IDENTITY AS INVENTION; 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. Cnotextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota; PART 2: IDENTITY AS IDEOLOGY; 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 Publishing; 9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority; 10. Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit: Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender; PART 3: IDENTITY AS INGENUITY; 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 Adolescents; 15. 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. Folklore and News at 6: Gendered Discourse Domains and Language Planning; 20. Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games; Index