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Selected Readings in Gender and Language

(Last Updated August 2007)

Abel, Elizabeth, ed.  Writing and Sexual Difference.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.

Aisenberg, Nadya, and Mona Harrington.  Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove.  Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1988.

al-Hibir, A.Y., and M.A. Simons, eds.  Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy.  Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1990.

Aries, Elizabeth.  "Gender and Communication."  Sex and Gender.  Ed. Phillip Shaver and Clyde Hendrick.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987.  149-76.

Ashton-Jones, Evelyn, and Gary A. Olson, eds.  The Gender Reader.  Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1991.

August, Eugene R.  "'Modern Men,' or Men's Studies in the 80s." College Englis: 44.6 (1982): 583-96.

Baker, Paul.  Public Discourses of Gay Men.  London: Routledge, 2005.

Barnett, Louise K.  Authority and Speech: Language, Society, and Self in the American Novel.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.

Baron, Dennis.  Grammar and Gender.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

Basso, Ellen B.  "Contextualization in Kalapalo Narratives." Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.  Ed. Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.  253-69.

Battan, Jesse F.  “‘The Word Made Flesh’: Language, Authority, and Sexual Desire in Late Nineteenth Century America.”  American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War.  Ed. John C. Fout and Maura Shaw Tantillo.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.  101-22.

Bauer, Dale.  “Gender in Bakhtin’s Carnival.”  Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991.  671-89.

Baym, Nina.  Women's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-1870.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.

Bederman, Gail.  Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917.  U of Chicago P, 1995.

Belenky, Mary Field, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule.  Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind.  New York: Basic Books, 1986.

Benor, Sarah, et al., eds.  Gendered Practices in Language.  Palo Alto: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.  2002.

Benstock, Sheri, ed.  Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

Berger, Maurice, Brian Wallis, and Simon Watson, eds. Constructing Masculinity.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Bergvall, Victoria L, Janet Bing, and Alice F. Freed, eds.  Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice.  London: Longman, 1996.

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana.  Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.

Bolker, Joan A.  "Teaching Griselda to Write."  College English 40.8 (1979): 906-908.

Boone, Joseph A., and Michael Cadden.  Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism.  New York: Routledge, 1990.

Booth, Alison.  Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure.  Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1994.

Boothe-Butterfield, Melanie.  "Recognizing and Communicating in Harassment-Prone Organizational Climates."  Women's Studies in Communication 9 (1986): 42-51.

Bourdieu, Pierre.  "The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges." Social Science Information 16.6 (1977): 645-68.

---.  Outline of a Theory of Practice.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1977.

Brod, Harry.  "Scholarly Studies of Men: the New Field Is an Essential Complement to Women's Studies."  The Chronicle of Higher Education 21 March 1990: B2-B3.

Booker, M. Keith.  Literature and Dominion: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction.  Gainesville: UP of Florida, ?date.

Brouwer, Dede, and Dorian de Haan, eds.  Women's Language: Socialization and Self-Image.  Providence, RI: Foris, 1986.

Brown, Penelope.  "Gender, Politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa." Discourse Processes 13 (1990): 123-41.

Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson.  Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978. 

Bucholtz, Mary, Anita Liang, and Laura Sutton, eds.  Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women & Language Conference.  Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1993.

Bucholtz, Mary, A. C. Liang, and Laurel Sutton, eds.  Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Butler, Judith.  Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative.  London: Routledge, 1997.

Bystrom, Dianne G., et al., eds.  Gender and Candidate Communication.  New York: Routledge, 2004.

Cameron, Debbie.  "What Has Gender Got to Do with Sex?"  Language and Communication 5.1 (1985): 19-27.

Cameron, Deborah.  Feminism and Linguistic Theory.  New York: St. Martin's, 1985.

---, ed.  The Feminist Critique of Language.  2nd ed.  London: Routledge, 1999.

---.  On Language and Sexual Politics.  New York: Routledge, 2006.

---, and Don Kulick, eds.  The Language and Sexuality Reader.  New York, Routledge, 2006.

Carmello, Virgillo, and Naomi Lindstrom, eds.  Women as Myth and Metaphor in Latin American Literature.  Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1985.

Case, Susan Schick.  "Communication Styles in Higher Education: Differences Between Academic Men and Women."  Women in Higher Education: Changes and Challenges.  Ed. Lynne B. Welch.  New York: Praeger, 1990.  94-118.

Caywood, Cynthia L., and Gillian R. Overing, eds.  Teaching Writing: Pedagogy, Gender and Equity.  Albany: SUNY P, 1987.

Chavez, Eliverio.  "Sex Differences in Language Shift."  Southwest Journal of Linguistics 8.2 (1988): 2-14.

Cixous Helene.  “The Laugh of the Medusa.”  Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1991.  334-49.

Claridge, Laura, and Elizabeth Langland, eds.  Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gendered Criticism.  Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1991.

Clark, Sandra.  "Language and Sex Bibliography 91."  Women and Language 14.2 (1991): 4-17.

Coates, Jennifer, ed.  Language and Gender: A Reader.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.

---.  Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities.  Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2002.

---.  Women, Men, and Language.  Rev. ed.  New York: Longman, 1993.

---.  Women Talk: Conversation between Women Friends.  New York: Blackwell, 1996.

Coates, Jennifer, and Deborah Cameron.  Women in their Speech Communities.  White Plains, NY: Longman, 1989.

Connell, R.W.  Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1987.

Cooke, Miriam, and Angela Woollacott.  Gendering War Talk.  Princeton UP, 1993.

Coombs, Mary I.  "Telling the Victim's Story."  Texas Journal of Women and the Law 2 (1993): 277-315.

Corbett, Greville.  Gender.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Crawford, Mary.  Talking Difference: On Gender and Language.  London: Sage, 1995.

Crawford, Mary, and Margaret Gentry, eds.  Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives.  New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

Curzan, Anne.  Gender Shifts in the History of English.  New York: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Davison, Alice, and Penelope Eckert, eds.  The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistics Profession.  Washington, DC: Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics of the Linguistic Society of America, 1990.

Delphy, Christine.  "Rethinking Sex and Gender."  Women's Studies International Forum 16.1 (1993): 1-9.

DeVault, Marjorie L.  "Women's Talk: Feminist Strategies for Analyzing Research Interviews."  Women and Language 10.2 (1992): 33-36.

di Leonardo, Micaela.  Toward a New Anthropology of Gender.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1990.

---.  The Varieties of Ethnic Experience: Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

Donovan, Josephine, ed.  Feminist Literary Criticism.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1975.

DuBois, Carol, et al.  Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1985.

Duggan, Lisa, and Nan D. Hunter.  Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.  Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985.

Duranti, Alessandro, and Charles Goodwin.  Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

Eagly, Alice.  Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A Social-Role Interpretation.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1987.

Edelsky, Carole.  "Acquisition of an Aspect of Communicative Competence: Learning What It Means to Talk Like a Lady."  Child Discourse.  Susan Ervin-Tripp and Claudia Mitchell Kernan, eds.  New York: Academic, 1977.  225-43.

---.  "Who's Got the Floor?"  Language in Society 10 (1981): 383-421.

Eckert, Penelope.  "Cooperative Competition in Adolescent 'Girl Talk.'"  Discourse Processes 13 (1990): 91-122.

---.  Language and Gender.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003

---.  "The Whole Woman: Sex and Gender Differences in Variation." Language Variation and Change 1 (1989); 245-67.

Erlich, Susan.  Language and Gender: Modern Themes in English Studies.  London: Routledge, 2007.

Fairbanks, Carol.  Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1986.

Fairclough, Norman.  Language and Power.  White Plains, NY: Longman, 1989.

Falk, Julie S.  Women, Language and Linguistics.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Farrell, Thomas J.  "The Female and Male Modes of Rhetoric." College English 40.8 (1979): 909-21.

Fishman, Pamela M.  "Interaction: the Work Women Do."  Social Problems 23 (1976): 469-77.

Flynn, Elizabeth A.  "Gender and Reading."  College English 45.3 (1983): 236-53.

Flynn, Elizabeth A., and Patrocinio P. Schweickart, eds.  Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts, and Contexts.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.

Frangosa, Susan Douglas, and Karen A. Mazza.  Integrating Women's Studies into the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.

Frank, Francine Wattman, and Paula A. Treichler.  Language, Gender, and Professional Writing.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1989.

Freed, Alice F.  "We Understand Perfectly: A Critique of Tannen's View of Cross-Sex Communication."  Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference.  Vol 1.  Ed. Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon.  Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1992.  144-52.

Foucault, Michael.  The History of Sexuality.  New York: Random, 1980.

Fuss, Diana.  “Fashion and the Homospectorial Look.”  Identities.  Ed. Kwama Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Ôr.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.  90-114.

Gabriel, Susan L., and Isaiah Smithson.  Gender in the Classroom: Power and Pedagogy.  New York: Oxford UP, 1990.

Gal, Susan.  "Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community."  Language in Society 7 (1978): 1-16.

Gallop, Jane.  Thinking through the Body.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.

Garnica, O.K., and Martha L. King.  Language, Children, and Society.  New York: Pergamon, 1979.

Gelfand, Elissa D., and Virginia Thorndike Hules.  French Feminist Criticism: Women, Language, and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography.  New York: Garland, ?date.

Gherardi, Silvia.  Gender, Symbolism, and Organizational Cultures.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar.  No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.

Gilmore, David D.  Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.

Ginsberg, Margaret.  Patriarchal Representations: Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theater.  New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Goodwin, Marjorie Harness.  "Tactical Uses of Stories: Participation Frameworks within Girls' and Boys' Disputes."  Discourse Processes 13 (1990): 33-72.

Gordon, Lynn D.  Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.

Goy, Robert W., and Bruce S. McEwen.  Sexual Differentiation of the Brain.  Cambridge: MIT P, 1980.

Graddol, David, and Joan Swann.  Gender Voices.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Grahn, Judy.  Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds.  Boston, Beacon, 1984.

Gray, Nancy.  Language Unbound: On Experimental Writing by Women.  1992.

Grice, Paul.  “Logic and Conversation.”  Syntax and Semantics.  Vol 3: Speech Acts.  New York: Academic P, 1975.  41-58.

Grimshaw, Allen D., ed.  Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversation.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Gubar, Susan.  "Mother, Maiden and the Marriage of Death: Women Writers and the Ancient Myth."  Women's Studies 6 (1979): 301-15.

Gumperz, John J.  Discourse Strategies.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.

Gumperz, John J., ed.  Language and Social Identity.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1982.

Gutek, Barbara A., and Bruce Morasch.  "Sex-Rations, Sex-Role Spillover, and Sexual Harassment of Women at Work."  Journal of Social Issues 38.4 (1982): 55-74.

Hall, Kira, and Mary Bucholtz, eds.  Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon, eds.  Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference.  2 vols.  Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 1992.

Halliday, M.A.K., and Ruqaiya Hasan.  Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language from a Social-Semiotic Perspective.  2nd ed.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.

Halpern, Diane F.  Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1986.

Halttunen, Karen.  Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle Class Culture in America, 1830-1870.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1983.

Harding, Sandra, and Jean F. O'Barr, eds.  Sex and Scientific Inquiry.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.

Harvey, Keith, and Celia Shalom, eds.  Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy.  London: Routledge, 1997.

Heath, Stephen.  Representation and Sexual Difference.  New York: Basil Blackwell.

Heinemann, Marlene E.  Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.

Heller, Scott.  "Scholars Debunk the Marlboro Man: Examining Stereotypes of Masculinity."  Chronicle of Higher Education 3 February 1993: A6-A7+.

Hemphill, Michael R., and Angela Laird Pfeiffer.  "Sexual Spillover in the Workplace: Testing the Appropriateness of Male-Female Interaction." Women's Studies in Communication 9 (1986): 52-66.

Henley, Nancy.  "Power, Sex, and Nonverbal Communication." Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance.  Ed. Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley.  Rowley, MA: Newbury, 1975.  184-203.

Henley, Nancy, and Cheris Kramarae.  “Gender, Power, and Miscommunication.” Miscommunication and Problematic Talk.  Ed. Nikolas Coupland, John Wiemann, and Howard Giles.  Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991.  18-43.

Hewitt, Nancy, Jean O’Barr, and Nancy Rosebaugh, eds.  Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996.

Hiatt, Mary.  Style and the 'Scribbling Women': An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.  Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1993.

---.  The Way Women Write.  New York: Teacher's College P, 1977.

Hill, Alette Olin.  Mother Tongue, Father Time: A Decade of Linguistic Revolt.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1986.

Holmes, Janet.  Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

---.  Women, Men, and Politemess.  London: Longman, 1995.

Holmes, Janet, and Miriam Meyerhoff.  "The Community of Practice: Theories and Methodologies in Language and Gender Research."  Language in Society 28.2 (June 1999): 173-83.

---, eds.  The Handbook of Language and Gender.  Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.

Homans, Margaret.  Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

hooks, bell.  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black.  Cambridge, MA: South End P, 1989.

Hume, Elizabeth, and Bonnie S. McElhinny.  The COSWL Collection of Language and Gender Syllabi.  Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America, 1993.

Hurst, Mary Jane.  "The Language of Children in 'The Snow-Image.'" Essex Institute Historical Collections 125.1 (1989): 55-64.

---.  The Voice of the Child in American Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1990.

---.  Review of Language and Gender in American Fiction by Elsa Nettels.  Southwest Journal of Linguistics (1997): 91-92.

Inoue, Miyako.  Vicarious Language: The Political Economy of Gender and Speech in Japan.  Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 2006.

Jacobs, Greg.  “Lesbian and Gay Male Language Use: A Critical Review of the Literature.”  America Speech (Spring 1996)/

Jacobs-Huey, Lanita.  From the Kitchen to the Parlor: Language and Becoming in African American Women’s Hair Care.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Johnson, Craig, and Larry Vinson.  "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't: Status, Powerful Speech, and Evaluations of Female Witnesses."  Women's Studies in Communication 10 (Spring 1987): 37-44.

Johnson, Fern L., and Marlene G. Fine.  "Sex Differences in Uses and Perceptions of Obscenity."  Women's Studies in Communication 8 (1985): 11-24.

Johnson, Sally, and Ulrike Meinhoff, eds.  Language and Masculinity.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1996.

Johnstone, Barbara.  The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics.  New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

---.  Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America.  Bloomington : Indiana UP, 1990.

---.  "Violence and Civility in Discourse: Uses of Mitigation by Rural Southern White Men."  SECOL Review 16.1 (1992): 1-40.

Jones, Charles.  Grammatical Gender in English, 950-1250.  the Hague: Croom Helm, 1988.

Jordon, Cynthia S.  Second Stories: The Politics of Language, Form, and Gender in Early American Fictions.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989.

Keller, Evelyn Fox.  Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender, and Science.  New York: Routledge, 1993.

Kessler, Suzanne J., and Wendy McKenna.  Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.  "'A Literary Rival at Bed and Board': Conflict and Aspiration in the Hawthorne Household."  The Markham Review 15 (1986): 41-43.

---.  Whitman's Poetry of the the Body.  Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989.

Kissling, Elizabeth, and Cheris Kramarae.  "Stranger Compliments: The Interpretation of Street Remarks."  Women's Studies in Communication 14.1 (1991): 75-93.

Knijn, Trudie, and Anne-Claire Mulder, eds.  Unravelling Fatherhood.  Providence, RI: Fois, 1986.

Kolodny, Annette.  "Some Notes on Defining a Feminist Literary Criticism."  Critical Inquiry 2 (1975): 75-92.

Kotthoff, Helga, and Ruth Wodak, eds.  Communicating Gender in Context.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997.

Kramarae, Cheris.  Women and Men Speaking: Frameworks for Analysis.  Rowley, MA: Newbury, 1981.

---.  The Voices and Words of Women and Men.  New York: Pergamon, 1981.

Kyratzis, Amy. ed.  Gender Constructions in Children’s Interactions: A Cultural Perspective.  A Special Issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction.  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000.

Labov, William.  "The Intersection of Sex and Social Class in the Course of Linguistic Change."  Language Variation and Change 2 (1990): 205-51.

Lakoff, Robin.  Language and Woman's Place.  New York: Harper, 1975.

---.  The Language War.  Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

---.  Talking Power: The Politics of Language.  New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

---.  "You Are What You Say."  Exploring Language.  Ed. Gary Goshgarian.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.  136-42.

Lambert, Helen H.  "Biology and Equality: A Perspective on Sex Differences."  Signs 4.1 (1978): 97-117.

Langland, Elizabeth, and Walter Gove, eds.  A Feminist Perspective in the the Academy: The Difference It Makes.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981.

Language Arts 70.2 (1993).  Theme of issue:  Gender, Language, and Literacy.

Lanser, Susan S.  "Toward a Feminist Narratology."  Style 20 (1986): 341-63.

Lauter, Paul, ed.  Reconstructing American Literature: Courses, Syllabi, Issues.  New York: Feminist P, 1983.

Leap, William L.  Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination, and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Languages.  Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1995.

---.  Word's Out: Gay Men's English.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996.

---, and Tom Boellstorff, eds.  Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2005.

Lehr, Susan, ed.  Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature.  Westport, CT: Heinemann, 2001.

Lemke, Jay L.  Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics.  London: Taylor and Francis, 1995.

Levy, Y.  "Gender in Children's Language: A Study of First Language Acquisition."  Diss.  Hebrew U, 1980.

Lewis, Helen Block.  Sex and the Superego: Psychic War in Men and Women.  Rev. ed.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1986.

Litosseliti, Lia.  Gender and Language: An Introduction and Resource Book.  New York: Oxford UP, 2006.

Litosseliti, Lia, and Jane Sunderland, eds.  Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis.  Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002.

Livia, Anna.  Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender.  NewYork:  Oxford UP, 2000.

Livia, Anna, and Hall, Kira, eds.  Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997.

Macaulay, Ronald K.  "The Myth of Female Superiority in Language." Journal of Child Language 5 (1978): 353-63.

Maccoby, Eleanor.  The Psychology of Sex Differences.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1974.

Maltz, Daniel N., and Ruth A. Borker.  "A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication."  Language and Social Identity.  John J. Gumperz, ed.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982.  196-216.

McConnell-Ginet, Sally.  "Feminism in Linguistics."  For Alma Mater: Theory and Practice in Feminist Scholarship.  Ed. Paula A. Treichler, Cheris Kramarae, and Beth Stafford.  Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1985.  159-76.

---.  "Intonation in a Man's World."  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 3 (1978): 541-59.

---.  "Language and Gender."  Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey.  Vol. 4.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988.  75-99.

McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, and Nelly Furman, eds.  Women and Language in Literature and Society.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1986.

McElhinny, Bonnie, et al., eds.  “Gender, Publication, and Citation in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: The Construction of a Scholarly Canon.”  Language in Society 32.3 (2003): 299-328.

McIlvenny, Paul, ed.  Talking Gender and Sexuality.  Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002.

Michie, Helena.  The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies.  New York: Oxford UP, 1987.

Miller, Casey, and Kate Swift.  The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing.  2nd ed.  New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

---.  "One Small Step for Genkind."  Exploring Language.  Ed. Gary Goshgarian.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.  123-33.

---.  Words and Women: New Language in New Times.  New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Miller, Nancy K., ed.  The Poetics of Gender.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.

Mills, Sara.  Feminist Stylistics.  London: Routledge, 1995.

---.  Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.  London: Longman, 1995.

---.  Slavic Gender Linguistics.  London: John Benjamins, 1999.

Milroy, Lesley.  Language and Social Networks.  2nd ed.  New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987.

Mitchell, Juliet.  Women: The Longest Revolution.  New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Montefiore, Jan.  Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, and Identity in Women's Writing.  New York: Methuen, 1987.

Morgan, Marcyliena.  Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Nettels, Elsa.  Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather.  Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997.

Nicholson, Linda J., ed.  Feminism/Postmodernism.  New York: Routledge, 1990.

Nilsen, Allen Pace, Haig Bosmajian, H. Lee Gershuny, and Julia P. Stanley. Sexism and Language.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1977.

Notman, Malkah, T., and Carol C. Nadelson, eds.  Women and Men: New Perspectives on Gender Differences.  Washington, DC: American Psychiatric P, 1991.

Ochs, Elinor.  "Indexing Gender."  Rethinking Context: Language as an Interactive Phenomenon.  Ed. Alessandro Duranti and Charles Goodwin.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.  335-58.

Okamoto, Shigeko, and Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, eds.  Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.

O'Leary, Virginia E., Rhoda K. Unger, and Barbara S. Wallson, eds. Women, Gender, and Social Psychology.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1985.

Osen, Tillie.  Silences.  New York: Delacorte P, 1979.

Ostriker, Alica Suskin.  Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America.  Boston: Beacon, 1986.

Parker, Patricia.  Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, and Property.  New York: Methuen, 1988.

Pauwels, Anne.  Women Changing Language.  London: Longman, 1998.

Penelope, Julia.  Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues.  New York: Pergamon, 1990.

Penfield, Joyce, ed.  Women and Language in Transition.  Albany, SUNY P, 1987.

Perry, Linda A.M., Lynn H. Turner, and Helen M. Sterk, eds.  Constructing and Reconstructing Gender: The Links Among Communication, Language, and Gender.  Albany: SUNY P.

Philips, Susan U., Susan Steele, and Christine Tanz.  Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Pigott, Margaret B.  "Sexist Roadblocks in Inventing, Focusing, and Writing."  College English 40.8 (1979): 922-27.

Poovey, Mary.  The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollestonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

Preisler, Bent.  Linguistic Sex Roles in Conversation: Social Variation in the Expression of Tentativeness in English.  New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986.

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Some Possible Bibliographical, Encyclopedic, and Internet Sources

MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
Humanities Index
Social Sciences and Humanities Index
International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey
Oxford English Dictionary
The Chronicle of Higher Education's "New Scholarly Books" Section
Women’s Studies File List.  To retrieve the file on language and sex, send the message GET LANGUAGE SEX_BIB to Listserv@umdd.umd.edu.  To get a copy of the entire file, add a second list that says INDEX WMST-L.

http://www.linguistlist.org

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~mfpankin/archwss.html

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/index.html

http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/bucholtz/lng/biblio/

http://www.stanford.edu/group/igala/index.html

 

Selected Relevant Journals

American Speech
Anthopological Linguistics
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal
Discourse and Society
Discourse Studies
Feminist Media Studies
Feminist Studies
Gender and Education
Gender and History
Gender and Language
Journal of Gender Studies
Journal of Language and Communication
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Journal of Linguistics
Journal of Pragmatics
Journal of Sociolinguistics
Language
Language and Communication
Language and Literature
Language and Speech
Language in Society (32.3 [2003] is devoted to language, gender, and sexuality)
Language in Variation and Change
Linguistic Inquiry
Pragmatics
Research on Language and Social Interaction
Sex Roles
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
Style
Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature
Women and Language
Women and Politics
Women’s Studies Abstracts
Women’s Studies in Communication
Women’s Studies
Women’s Studies Quarterly