Language, gender and career / Jennifer Coates -- Rethinking language and gender studies : some issues for the 1990s / Deborah Cameron -- Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival / Liz Yorke -- Sappho and the other woman / Margaret Williamson -- 'Her wench of bliss' : gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies almanack / Deborah Tyler-Bennett -- Cyborgs and cyberpunk : rewriting the feminine in popular fiction / Jenny Wolmark -- Claiming the speakwrite : linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia / Elisabeth Mahoney -- Feminising classroom talk? / Joan Swann and David Graddol -- Primary school teachers' explanations of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom : a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum / Cleopatra Altani -- 'We're boys, miss!' : finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom / Jane Sunderland -- Dominance and communicative incompetence : the speech habits of a group of 8-11-year-old boys in a Lebanese rural community / Farida Abu-Haidar -- Voice and gender in children / Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn -- Feminism, language and the rhetoric of television wildlife programmes / Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith -- Man in the news : the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard -- Commonplaces : the woman in the street : text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger / Helen Hills.