Women and language in literature and society / [electronic resource] edited by Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, Nelly Furman.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Linguistics and the feminist challenge / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Anthropology : social and cultural perspectives / Ruth Borker -- Textual feminism / Nelly Furman -- Proprietors of language / Cheris Kramarae -- The psychology of the generic masculine / Wendy Martyna -- "Don't 'dear' me!" / Nessa Wolfson and Joan Manes -- "Women's language" or "powerless language"? / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins -- How and why are women more polite : some evidence from a Mayan community / Penelope Brown -- Women in their speech communities / Patricia C. Nichols -- Women's speech : the voice of feminism / Howard Giles ... [et al.] -- Directive-responsive speech sequences in girls' and boys' task activities / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Anger and the politics of naming / Naomi Scheman -- Honing a habitable languagescape : women's images for the new world frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- The silence is broken / Josephine Donovan -- The "feminine" language of Marianne Moore / Bonnie Costello -- The construction of ambiguity in The awakening : a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler -- Women's autobiography in France : for a dialectics of identification / Nancy K. Miller -- Snatches of conversation / Jane Gallop -- Writing like a woman / Jane Gallop -- Reading reading : echo's abduction of language / Caren Greenberg -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse / Gayatri C. Spivak.