List of Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroduction, Sara MillsSection 1: Position Papers: Difference or Dominance 1. Language, gender and career, Jennifer Coates2. Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s, Deborah CameronSection 2: Lesbian Poetics3. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival, Liz Yorke4. Sappho and the other woman, Margaret Williamson5. `Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, Deborah Tyler-BennettSection 3: Gender/Genre6. Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popular fiction, Jenny Wolmark7. Claiming the speakwrite: linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia, Elisabeth MahoneySection 4: Gender, Language and Education8. Feminising classroom talk?, Joan Swann and David Graddol9. Primary school teachers' explanation of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum, Cleopatra Altani10. `We're boys, miss!': finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom, Jane SunderlandSection 5: Gender, Language and Children11. Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11 year old boys in a Lebanese rural community, Farida Abu-Haidar12. Voice and gender in children, Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray NairnSection 6: Language Media/Visual Analysis and Gender13. Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen MillsConclusions, Sara MillsBibliographyIndex