Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors, xiii
For Nov. 7 everyone reads:
Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies, 3
Mary Bucholtz
For presenting Nov. 28 choose a chapter not in brackets to present to class using the template in
http://languages.uncc.edu/people/ksstephe/mals/LakoffGA.doc.
For homework Nov. 28 read the chapter assigned to the whole class and read one other of your
choice:
Part I
Identify as Invention
1. No Woman, No Cry: Claiming African American Women’s Place, 27
Marcyliena Morgan
Presenter:
Reader: Sarah V., Kim
For Nov. 28 everyone reads:
2. Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out
Stories, 46
Kathleen M. Wood
Presenter:
Reader:
3. Good Guys and “Bad” Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student
Writers, 64
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Presenter: Jeanne, Sarah H.
Reader:
4. Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity, 83
Lisa Capps
Presenter: Sarah V., Carrie
Reader: Molly, Nikki
5. [Contextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota, 101
Sara Trechter]
Part II
Identity as Ideology
6. Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls, 123
Jennifer Coates
Presenter: Emily, Kim
Reader: Sarah H., Jeanne
7. [Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor, 145]
Caitlin Hines
8. All Media Are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity In Alternative Publishing, 163
Laurel A. Sutton
Presenter: Molly, Nikki
Reader: Carrie, Justin
9. Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing Against Federal
Authority, 181
Rebecca J. Dobkins
Presenter: Justin, Lacy
Reader:
10. [“Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit”: Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied
Linguistic Practice, and Theories of Language and Gender, 200]
Keith Walters
For presenting Dec. 5 choose a chapter not in brackets to present to class using the template in
http://languages.uncc.edu/people/ksstephe/mals/LakoffGA.doc.
For homework Dec. 5 read the chapter assigned to the whole class and read one other of your
choice:
Part III
Identity as Ingenuity
11. [The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work, 221]
Deborah Tannen
12. Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of
“Women’s Narrative,” 241
Patricia E. Sawin
Presenter: Sarah H., Jeanne
Reader: Lacy, Nikki
13. Language, Socialization, and the Silence in Gay Adolescence, 259
William Leap
Presenter: Emily, Justin
Reader: Molly, Kim
14. [Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents, 273]
Norma Mendoza-Denton
15. Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity, 293
A.C. Liang
Presenter: Kim, Carrie
Reader: Emily, Sarah V.
Part IV
Identity as Improvisation
16. Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens, 313
Rusty Barrett
Presenter: Nikki, Sarah V.
Reader: Carrie, Jeanne
17. “She Sired Six Children”: Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender, 332
Anna Livia
Presenter: Molly, Lacy
Reader: Sarah H., Justin
18. [Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel, 348]
Mary Bucholtz
19. [From Folklore to “News at 6”: Maintaining Language and Reframing Identity through
the Media, 369]
Colleen Cotter
For Dec. 5 everyone reads:
20. Constructing Opposition within Girls’ Games, 388
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Presenter:
Reader:
Name Index, 411
Subject Index, 417