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• Introduction: Why is language a feminist issue? PART ONE Speech and silence: The quest for women's voices in culture INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE IDENTITIES 1 NAMING AND IDENTITY 2 DIFFERENCE: A SPECIAL THIRD WORLD WOMEN’S ISSUE, GENDER, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 3 WOMEN AND FICTION 4 LANGUAGE AND GENDER 5 THE GENDERED SENTENCE FURTHER READING FOR PART ONE PART TWO Representations: Sexist language and sexist discourse INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO TH EORETICAL QU ESTIONS 6 EXTRACTS FROM MAN MADE LANGUAGE 7 LINGUISTIC, SOCIAL AND SEXUAL RELATIONS: A REVIEW OF DALE SPENDER'S MAN MADE LANGUAGE 8 LINGUISTIC SEXES AND GENDERS 9 ANDROCENTRISM IN PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR: SINGULAR 'THEY', SEX-INDEFINITE 'HE', AND 'HE OR SHE' THE DEBATE ON NONSEXIST LANGUAGE 10 A PERSON PAPER ON PURITY IN LANGUAGE 11 INTRODUCTION TO THE A-Z OF NON-SEXIST LANGUAGE 12 LOST IN TRANSLATION: NON-SEXIST LANGUAGE 13 GENDER-BASED LANGUAGE REFORM AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE 14 THE LINGUISTICS OF BLAME: REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN IN THE SUN'S REPORTING OF CRIMES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE 15 THE SEXUAL Reproduction OF MEANING: A DISCOURSE-BASED APPROACH FURTHER READING FOR PART TWO PART THREE Talking gender: Dominance, difference, performance INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE DEVELOPING A TRADITION 16 THE WOMAN 17 EXTRACT FROM LANGUAGE AND WOMAN'S PLACE 18 CONVERSATIONAL INSECURITY DOMINANCE AND DIFFERENCE 19 THE RELATIVITY OF LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES: RETHINKING POWER AND SOLIDARITY IN GENDER AND DOMINANCE 20 WHEN 'DIFFERENCE' IS 'DOMINANCE': A CRITIQUE OF THE 'ANTI-POWER-BASED' CULTURAL APPROACH TO SEX DIFFERENCES, NEW DIRECTIONS: PERFORMING GENDER 21 'THANK GOD I'M A WOMAN': THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERING FEMININITIES 22 LIP SERVICE ON THE FANTASY LINES FURTHER READING FOR PART THREE