Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.

an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of IWPR^ ... The book establishes with authority IWPR^'s status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender.

• Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction Language and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by Author Part 1: Context 1: Mary Bucholtz: Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context 2: Bonnie McElhinny: "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics 3: Sally McConnell-Ginet: Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited 4: Anna Livia: Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet Part 2: Concepts 5: Janet Holmes: Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman's Place 6: Deborah Tannen: Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman's Place 7: Penelope Eckert: The Good Woman 8: Kira Hall: Language and Marginalized Places Part 3: Femininities 9: Sachiko Ide: Exploring Woman's Language in Japan 10: Catherine Davies: "Woman's Langugae and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One's Own to a Home of One's Own to a Corporation of One's Own 11: Jenny Cook-Gumperz: Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman's Place and Language Socialization 12: Shari Kendall: Mother's Place in Language and Woman's Place Part 4: Power 13: Miriam Meyerhoff: Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women's Silence 14: Susan Herring: Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman's Place 15: Susan Ehrlich: Linguistics Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects 16: Scott Kiesling: What Does a Focus on "Men's Language" Tell Us about Language and Woman's Place? Part 5: Women's Place 17: Judith Mattson Beam and Barbara Johnstone: Gender, Identity, and "Strong Language" in a Professional Woman's Talk 18: Toshiko Matsumoto: The New Language and Place of Women in Japan: Reflections on Language and Woman's Place 19: Marcyliena Morgan: "I'm Every Woman": Black Women's (Dis)placement in Women's Language Study 20: Norma Mendoza-Denton: The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas 21: Sara Trechter: Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the Field Part 6: Sexualities 22: William L. Leap: Language and Woman's Place: Blueprint Studies of Gay Men's English 23: Rudolf P. Gaudio: They Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman's Place 24: Robin Queen: "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar": The Importance of Linguistics Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances 25: Rusty Barrett: As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff's Queer Augury

Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.

an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of IWPR^ ... The book establishes with authority IWPR^'s status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender.

• Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction Language and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by Author Part 1: Context 1: Mary Bucholtz: Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context 2: Bonnie McElhinny: "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics 3: Sally McConnell-Ginet: Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited 4: Anna Livia: Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet Part 2: Concepts 5: Janet Holmes: Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman's Place 6: Deborah Tannen: Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman's Place 7: Penelope Eckert: The Good Woman 8: Kira Hall: Language and Marginalized Places Part 3: Femininities 9: Sachiko Ide: Exploring Woman's Language in Japan 10: Catherine Davies: "Woman's Langugae and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One's Own to a Home of One's Own to a Corporation of One's Own 11: Jenny Cook-Gumperz: Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman's Place and Language Socialization 12: Shari Kendall: Mother's Place in Language and Woman's Place Part 4: Power 13: Miriam Meyerhoff: Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women's Silence 14: Susan Herring: Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman's Place 15: Susan Ehrlich: Linguistics Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects 16: Scott Kiesling: What Does a Focus on "Men's Language" Tell Us about Language and Woman's Place? Part 5: Women's Place 17: Judith Mattson Beam and Barbara Johnstone: Gender, Identity, and "Strong Language" in a Professional Woman's Talk 18: Toshiko Matsumoto: The New Language and Place of Women in Japan: Reflections on Language and Woman's Place 19: Marcyliena Morgan: "I'm Every Woman": Black Women's (Dis)placement in Women's Language Study 20: Norma Mendoza-Denton: The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas 21: Sara Trechter: Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the Field Part 6: Sexualities 22: William L. Leap: Language and Woman's Place: Blueprint Studies of Gay Men's English 23: Rudolf P. Gaudio: They Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman's Place 24: Robin Queen: "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar": The Importance of Linguistics Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances 25: Rusty Barrett: As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff's Queer Augury

Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.

an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of IWPR^ ... The book establishes with authority IWPR^'s status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender.

• Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction Language and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by Author Part 1: Context 1: Mary Bucholtz: Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context 2: Bonnie McElhinny: "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics 3: Sally McConnell-Ginet: Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited 4: Anna Livia: Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet Part 2: Concepts 5: Janet Holmes: Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman's Place 6: Deborah Tannen: Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman's Place 7: Penelope Eckert: The Good Woman 8: Kira Hall: Language and Marginalized Places Part 3: Femininities 9: Sachiko Ide: Exploring Woman's Language in Japan 10: Catherine Davies: "Woman's Langugae and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One's Own to a Home of One's Own to a Corporation of One's Own 11: Jenny Cook-Gumperz: Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman's Place and Language Socialization 12: Shari Kendall: Mother's Place in Language and Woman's Place Part 4: Power 13: Miriam Meyerhoff: Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women's Silence 14: Susan Herring: Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman's Place 15: Susan Ehrlich: Linguistics Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects 16: Scott Kiesling: What Does a Focus on "Men's Language" Tell Us about Language and Woman's Place? Part 5: Women's Place 17: Judith Mattson Beam and Barbara Johnstone: Gender, Identity, and "Strong Language" in a Professional Woman's Talk 18: Toshiko Matsumoto: The New Language and Place of Women in Japan: Reflections on Language and Woman's Place 19: Marcyliena Morgan: "I'm Every Woman": Black Women's (Dis)placement in Women's Language Study 20: Norma Mendoza-Denton: The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas 21: Sara Trechter: Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the Field Part 6: Sexualities 22: William L. Leap: Language and Woman's Place: Blueprint Studies of Gay Men's English 23: Rudolf P. Gaudio: They Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman's Place 24: Robin Queen: "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar": The Importance of Linguistics Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances 25: Rusty Barrett: As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff's Queer Augury