Selected Reference Sources: Gender and Language
 
Bibliography: Language, Sex & Gender
 
Baron, Dennis 1986: Grammar and Gender. New Haven: Yale
 University Press
 
Bate, Barbara 1988: Communication and the Sexes. New York:
 Harper & Row
 
Beneke, Timothy 1982: Men on Rape. New York: St. Martin's Press
 
Borker, Ruth, and David Maltz 1989: Anthropological Perspectives
 on Gender and Language. Gender and Anthropology. Sandra
 Morgen (ed.); American Anthropological Association
 
Cameron, Deborah 1992 (2nd ed.): Feminism and Linguistic Theory.
 New York: St. Martin's Press
 
Cameron, Deborah 1990 (ed.): The Feminist Critique of Language.
 New York: Harper & Row
 
Chalmers, Alan 1978: What is this Thing Called Science? An
 Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and its
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Chodorow, Nancy 1989: Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. New
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Coates, Jennifer 1986: Women, Men, and Language. New York:
 Longman
 
Coates, Jennifer and Deborah Cameron (eds.) 1989: Women in their
 Speech Communities. New York: Longman
 
Dinnerstein, Dorothy 1976: The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual
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Eckert, Penelope and Sally McConnell-Ginet 1992: Think
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Fausto-Sterling, Anne 1992 (2nd ed.): Myths of Gender.
 Biological Theories about Women and Men. New York: Basic
 Books
 
Ferree, Myra Marx and Beth B. Hess (eds) 1987: Analyzing Gender:
 A Handbook of Social Science. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
 Publications
 
Frank, Francine and Frank Anshen 1983: Language and the Sexes.
 Albany: State University of New York Press
 
Frank, Francine and Paula Treichler (eds.) 1989: Language,
 Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and
 Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage. New York: The Modern
 Language Association of America
 
Gal, Susan 1991: Between speech and silence: The problematics
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Goodenough, Ruth Gallagher 1990: Situational stress and sexist
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Graddol, David, and Joan Swann 1989: Gender Voices. Oxford:
 Basil Blackwell
 
Gumperz, John (ed.) 1982: Language and Social Identity.
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Heldke, Lisa 1991: Do you mind if I speak freely?
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Henley, Nancy 1979: Body Politics: Power, Sex, and Nonverbal
 Communication. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall
 
Hill, Jane and Bruce Mannheim 1992: Language and World View.
 Annual Review of Anthropology 21:381-406
 
Hintikka, Merrill and Jaakko Hintikka 1983: How can language be
 sexist? Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on
 Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of
 Science. Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka, eds.;
 Boston; D. Reidel Publishing Company
 
Keller, Evelyn Fox 1982: Feminism and science. Signs 7:589-602
 
Keller, Evelyn Fox 1985: Gender and science. Reflections on
 Gender and Science. New Haven: Yale University Press
 
Key, Mary Ritchie 1975: Male/Female Language. Metuchen, N.J.:
 The Scarecrow Press
 
Kramarae, Cheris 1980: The Voices and Words of Women and Men.
 New York: Pergamon Press
 
Kramarae, Cheris 1982: Gender: How she speaks. Attitudes towards
 Language Variation. Social and Applied Contexts. Ellen
 Bouchard Ryan and Howard Giles, eds. London: Edward Arnold
 
Kramer, Cheris 1974: Wishy-washy mommy talk. Exploring 
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Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson 1980: Metaphors We Live By.
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Lakoff, Robin 1975: Language and Woman's Place. New York: 
 Harper and Row
 
Langer, Suzanne 1944: Language and Thought. Exploring Language
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Lucy, John 1985: Whorf's view of the linguistic mediation of
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Lutz, Catherine 1990a: Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the
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 Language and the Politics of Emotion. Catherine Lutz and
 Lila Abu-Lughod, eds.; Cambridge University Press
 
Lutz, Catherine 1990b: The erasure of women's writing in
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MacArthur, L., and S. Eisen 1976: Achievements of male and
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Maltz, David, and Ruth Borker 1982: A cultural approach to male-
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Michel, Andre 1986: Down with Stereotypes! Eliminating Sexism
 from Children's Literature and School Textbooks. Paris:
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Miller, Casey, and Kate Swift 1991 (updated): Words and Women:
 New Language in New Times. New York: HarperCollins
 
Mills, Anne 1986: The Acquisition of Gender: A Study of English
 and German. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag
 
Mills, Jane 1989: WomanWords: A Dictionary of Words about
 Women. New York: The Free Press
 
Moulton, Janice, G.M. Robinson, and C. Elias 1978: Sex bias in
 language use: "Neutral" pronouns that aren't. American
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Newman, Joan 1982: Girls are People Too! A Bibliography of
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Nilsen, Alleen Pace, Haig Bosmajian, H. Lee Gershuny, and Julia
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 Council of Teachers of English
 
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Center for Sex Equality
 1984: Bibliography of Nonsexist Supplementary Books (K-12).
 Phoenix: Oryx Press
 
Penelope, Julia 1990: Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the
 Fathers' Tongue. New York: Pergamon Press
 
Penfield, Joyce (ed.) 1987: Women and Language in Transition.
 Albany: State University of New York Press
 
Perry, Linda et.al. 1992: Constructing and Reconstructing Gender.
 Albany: State University of New York Press
 
Philips, Susan, Susan Steele, and Christine Tanz (eds.) 1987:
 Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective
 
Piercy, Marge 1976: Woman on the Edge of Time. New York:
  Fawcett Crest
 
Poynton, Cate 1989: Language and Gender: Making the Difference.
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Pusch, Luise 1984: Das Deutsche als Mnnersprache. Frankfurt am
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Rosenau, Pauline 1992: Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences:
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 Press
 
Sanday, Peggy Reeves 1990: Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex,
 Brotherhood and Privilege on Campus. New York: NYU Press
 
Smith, Philip 1985: Language, the Sexes, and Society. New York:
 Basil Blackwell
 
Spender, Dale 1980: Man Made Language. Boston: Routledge &
 Keegan Paul
 
Swann, Joan 1992: Girls, Boys, and Language. Cambridge, MA:
 Blackwell
 
Tannen, Deborah 1990: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men
 in Conversation. New York: William Morrow
 
Thorne, Barrie, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy Henley (eds) 1983:
 Language, Gender, and Society. Rowlet, MA: Newbury
 Publishers
 
Trmel-Pltz, Senta 1982: Frauensprache: Sprache der
 Vernderung. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
 
Trmel-Pltz, Senta (ed.) 1984: Gewalt durch Sprache: Die
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 Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
 
Wilms, Denise, and Ilene Cooper (eds) 1987: A Guide to Non-
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 Academy Chicago Publishers
 
 
Allport, Gordon. "The Language of Prejudice." Language Awareness, 6th ed. Ed. Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. New York: St.
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 Baron, Dennis E. Grammar and Gender. New Haven: Yale UP, 1986. Selections. 
 
 Coates, Jennifer. A Sociolinguistic Account of Sex Differences in Language. New York: Longman, 1986. Selections. 
 
 Frank, Francine and Frank Anshen. Language and the Sexes. Albany: SUNY P, 1983. Selections. 
 
 Graddol, David and Joan Swann. Gender Voices. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Selections. 
 
 Hayakawa, S.I. and Alan R. Hayakawa. "Words with Built-in Judgments." Language Awareness, 6th ed. Ed. Paul Eschholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia
 Clark. New York: St. Martin's 1994. 298-302. 
 
 Hutson, C. Kirk. "'Whackety Whack, Don't Talk Back': The Glorification of Violence Against Females and the Subjugation of Women in
 Nineteenth-Century Southern Folk Music." Journal of Women's History 8.3 (1996): 114-142. 
 
 Kramer, Cheris. "Women's Speech: Separate But Unequal." Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance. Ed. Barrie Thorne and Nancy Henley.
 Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1975. 43-56. 
 
 Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1980. Selections. 
 
 Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. Talking Power: The Politics of Language. New York: Basic, 1990. Selections. 
 
 Martyna, Wendy. "The Psychology of the Generic Masculine." Women and Language in Literature and Society. Ed. Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth
 Borker, and Nelly Furman. New York: Praeger, 1980. 69-79. 
 
 Miller, Casey and Kate Swift. Words and Women: New Language in New Times, updated ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Selections. 
 
 Morahan, Shirley. "Definition." A Woman's Place. Albany: SUNY P, 1981. 52-67. 
 
 Pearson, Judy and Roberta Davilla. "The Gender Construct: Understanding Why Men and Women Communicate Differently." Women and Men
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 Schulz, Muriel R. "The Semantic Derogation of Woman." The Feminist Critique of Language. Ed. Deborah Cameron. New York: Routledge, 1990.
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 Spender, Dale. "Language and Reality: Who Made the World?" Man Made Language, 2nd. ed. New York: HarperCollins/Pandora, 1990. 138-162. 
 
 Swacker, Marjorie. "The Sex of the Speaker as a Sociolinguistic Variable." Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance. Ed. Barrie Thorne and
 Nancy Henley. Rowley, MA: Newbury House, 1975. 76-83. 
 
 Tannen, Deborah. "Wears Jump Suit. Sensible Shoes. Uses Husband's Last Name." Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for
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Reviews
 
Housman, Judy 1982: Mothering, the unconscious, and feminism.
 (Comments on various works by Nancy Chodorow). Radical
 America 16: 47-61
 
Kramarae, Cheris 1988: Review of Women, Men and Language (by
 Jennifer Coates, 1986). Quarterly Journal of Speech 74:381-
 383
 
Kramarae, Cheris 1992: Review of Speaking Freely (by Julia
 Penelope, 1990), You Just Don't Understand (by Deborah
  Tannen, 1990), and Telling It: Women and Language across
 Cultures (by Telling It Book Collective, 1990). Signs 17:
 666-671
 
Perry, Linda A.M. 1991: Review of You Just Don't Understand (by
 Deborah Tannen, 1990); Communication Quarterly 39:376-377
 
Rose, Ruth 1991: Review of You Just Don't Understand (by Deborah
 Tannen 1990); Sex Roles 24:785-787
 
Shibamoto, Janet 1988: Review of Feminism and Linguistic Theory
 (by Deborah Cameron, 1985), Nonverbal Sex Differences:
 Communication Accuracy and Style (by Judith A. Hall 1984),
 Language and Power (by Cheris Kramarae, Muriel Schulz, and
 William O'Barr, eds., 1984), and Language, Gender, and
 Society (by Barrie Thorne, Cheris Kramarae, and Nancy
 Henley, eds., 1983). Signs 13:635-640
 
Thorne, Barrie 1993: Review of He-Said-She-Said: Talk as Social
 Organization among Black Children (by Marjorie Harness
 Goodwin, 1990), and Schoolgirl Fiction (by Valerie
 Walkerdine, 1990). Signs 18:452-454
 
 
 
Selected Periodicals with Information Relevant for
Gender and Language Studies
 
American Dialogue
American Speech
Anthropological Linguistics
Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal
Children's Language
Feminist Studies
Genders
Herstory Microfilm Collection
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
Journal of Language and Communication
Journal of Linguistics
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
Language
Language and Communication
Language and Speech
Language in Society
Language Variation and Change
Lifestyles
Linguistic Inquiry
Ms.
New Directions for Women
Psychology of Women Quarterly
Sage; A Scholarly Journal on Black Women
SECOL Review
Sex Roles
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Southwest Journal of Linguistics
Style (and its annual bibliography!)
Theory and Society
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
Women and Language
Women and Performance
Women and Politics
Women's Studies Abstracts
Women's Studies in Communication
Women's Studies International Forum: A Multidisciplinary 
 Journal
Women's Studies
Women's Studies Quarterly
The Women's Review of Books
Writing Women
 
Selected Reference Tools with Information Relevant for
Gender and Language Studies
(not an exhaustive list)
 
LLBA
MLA Bibliography
ERIC
America: History and Life
Humanities Index
Social Sciences and Humanities Index
Arts and Humanities Index
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
Philosopher's Index
Sociological Abstracts
 
 
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