Bilingual Women

Pauline Burton Lecturer in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences,City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Ketaki Kushari Dyson Writer and Research Associate, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford Mrs Shirley Ardener Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women,University of Oxford

'...this book is enormously valuable for having broken new grounds, and having established a strong link between gender and bilingualism.'Giuliana LadomeryLUISS, Rome'The insights into gender-related language choices are often fascinating, sometimes surprising as they contradict hastily accepted views.'Bulletin of Francophone Africa 'The main strength of this book is found in its detailed ethnographic descriptions of language choices in bilingual societies from all over the world ... I would welcome many of the articles in this book into courses on

• P. Burton, Women and Second-Language Use: An Introduction - A. Spedding, Open Castilian, Closed Aymara? Bilingual Women in the Yungas of La Paz, Bolivia - P. Harvey, The Presence and Absence of Speech in the Communication of Gender - C. Humphrey, Casual Chat and Ethnic Identity: Women's Second-Language Use among Buryats in the USSR - N. Chinchaladze and T. Dragadze, Women and Second-Language Knowledge in Rural Soviet Georgia: An Outline - M. McDonald, Women and Linguistic Innovation in Brittany - E. Constantinidou, The `Death' of East Sutherland Gaelic: Death by Women? - J. Burke, French: No One's Language, Therefore Everyone's Language: Convent Speech Lower Zaire - S. Mascarenhas-Keyes, Language and Diaspora: The Use of Portuguese, English and Konkani by Catholic Goan Women - L. Hong, A Note on My Experience as a Student, a Teacher and an Interpreter of English in China - K.K. Dyson, Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer's Testimony - E. Tonkin, Engendering Language Differences