Recently added articles from Women and Language:
The journey continues. But how? And to where?(Editorial)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Looking Back: In the first issue of Women and Language News, January 1976, editors Pam Tiedt and Pat Nichols, wrote that "one of the problems ... is finding out what other people are doing, especially due to the interdisciplinary nature of the study of women's language" (1) ....
Rethinking Ms.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Having grown up in Germany, I first encountered the Ms. problem as an exchange student in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1978/79. Whenever I introduced myself, I was asked, "Miss or Mrs.? .... Ms.!" I'd say, and they'd reply with something equivalent to "Huh?" In 2007, Ms. has come a ...
I will speak out: narratives of resistance in contemporary Indian women's discourses in Hindu arranged marriages.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Much has been written about the importance of recognizing and understanding resistance as it is experienced by members of Other and/or marginalized worlds. In this essay, I discuss resistance as enacted by middle-class women of a Punjabi community in contemporary Hindu arranged ...
A Yiddish diva! Requiem for a fabulous woman in Avraham Heffner's film Laura Adler's Last Love.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Avraham Heffner's film Laura Adler's Last Love (Israel, 1990)focuses on an admired Israeli Yiddish theatre star and her colleagues in a Tel Aviv theatre company in the 1980s. This essay reviews the cinematic articulation of the actress performing in a diasporic, almost forgotten ...
"Outcast among outcasts": identity, gender, and leadership in a Mac users group.(Report)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Studies about women and technology continue to lament the lack of women involved in the design process, a key area for leadership development in technologically based organizations (Liker, Hadda, & Karlin, 1999; Lorber, 1993; Stein, 2006; Turkle, 1997; Wajcman, 2000). In cases ...
Janet Holmes, Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Janet Holmes, Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006. Reviewed by Patty Sotirin, Michigan Technological University Gendered Talk at Work provides both conceptually important analyses and pragmatically ...
Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz, Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz, Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries. Revised and Expanded Edition. Oxford University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Elisabeth D. Kuhn, Virginia Commonwealth University Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries ...
Alan Fogel, Andrea Garvey, Hui-Chin Hsu, and Delisa West-Stroming, Change Processes in Relationships: A Relational-Historical Research Approach.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Alan Fogel, Andrea Garvey, Hui-Chin Hsu, and Delisa West-Stroming, Change Processes in Relationships: A Relational-Historical Research Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Reviewed by Andrea N. Lambert, Northern Kentucky University In Change Processes in Relationships: A ...
Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood, Editors, The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood, Editors, The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication. Sage Publications, Inc., 2006. Reviewed by Jimmie Manning, Northern Kentucky University Studying sex, gender, and/or sexuality in the field of communication is too often misunderstood or ...
Natalie J. Sokoloff, Editor with Christina Pratt. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Natalie J. Sokoloff, Editor with Christina Pratt. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture. Rutgers University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Diane Shoos, Michigan Technological University Questions of gender, race, and class have long been at ...
Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Deborah Cameron, On Language and Sexual Politics. Routledge, 2006. Reviewed by Anita Taylor, Professor Emeritus, George Mason University On Language and Sexual Politics, by Deborah Cameron brings together much of her important scholarship on this topic. The collection includes ...
Sanford Berman.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... The news column returns after a several issue hiatus. It comes back primarily because Women and Language regularly receives interesting items from an obviously indefatigable distributor of information, Sanford Berman. We, and our readers, owe a huge debt of gratitude to Berman, until 1999 ...
The Tretter Collection.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Many readers will be glad to learn about the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries. Located in the Special Collections and Rare Books Division of the University of Minnesota, the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies ...
Broad Universe.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... As we all know, re-claiming and re-framing language are constant enterprises for those of us interested in gender and language interconnections. In this spirit see the recently created (October 2006) organization, Broad Universe. To learn about this international organization with the ...
The Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Another group with sustained interest in language is The Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance, a coalition of community organizations and community activists in Northeast Ohio, based in Cleveland, that is committed to enhancing and protecting the cultural human rights and ...
Sara Silverman.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The Village Voice of January 23, 2007 includes "Sara Silverman is my Kind of Cunt," by Michael Musto. Silverman is relevant here, because so much of what she does involves efforts at reclaiming language, or what Musto describes as detonating "verbal WMD's about everything from Jesus's ...
>Political correctness.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... All readers doubtless know about recent efforts to enforce a political correctness of the kind referred to by Silverman, that relating to naming the greetings used in the holiday season. Many have been the efforts to enforce a "Merry Christmas" greeting by stores, businesses and ...
Euphemism.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... And, for more on the topic of political correctness, note an editorial in the November 20, 2006 NY Times, which shows how it can extend to amazing levels of euphemism. The editorial notes that the federal annual hunger report last year did not use the word, hunger. Instead, it reported ...
Mother Warriors Voice.(News and Notes)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Another flyer Berman sent announces Mother Warriors Voice, described as "a unique activist newsjoumal written by mothers." Though the adoption of such a violent, male-identified title is sad, the aim seems worthy: "a 20 year old, 60 page newsjoumal" that "includes moms' stories, political ...
Some additional materials worthy of note.
Mar 22, 2007 ... The summer/fall 2006 issue of Canadian Women Studies /les cahiers de la femme (vol. 25 #s 3 & 4) is devoted completely to the topic of Canadian feminism in action. This publication, which includes French abstracts for articles published in English, and English abstracts for those published ...