Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : twenty years after Language and woman's place / Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall -- Cries and whispers : the shattering of the silence / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Pregnant pauses : silence and authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- "This discussion is going too far!" : male resistance to female participation on the Internet / Susan Herring, Deborah A. Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto --The "father knows best" dynamic in dinnertime narratives / Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor -- Managing the body of labor : the treatment of reproduction and sexuality in a therapeutic institution / Cathryn Houghton -- A synthetic sisterhood : false friends in a teenage magazine / Mary Talbot -- Language, gender, and power : an anthropological review / Susan Gal-- Lip service on the fantasy lines / Kira Hall -- Challenging hegemonic masculinities : female and male police officers handling domestic violence / Bonnie S. McElhinny -- "I ought to throw a Buick at you" : fictional representations of butch/femme speech / Anna Livia -- Bitches and skankly hobags : the place of some women in contemporary slang / Laurel A. Sutton -- "Tasteless" Japanese : less "feminine" speech among young Japanese women / Shigeko Okamoto -- "Are you with me?" : power and solidarity in the discourse of African American women / Michلele Foster -- From mulatta to mestiza : passing and the linguistic reshaping of ethnic identity / Mary Bucholtz -- "Nobody is talking bad" : creating community and claiming power on the production lines / Tara Goldstein -- Reproducing the discourse of mothering : how gendered talk makes gendered lives / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Sometimes Spanish, sometimes English : language use among rural New Mexican Chicanas / Marâia Dolores Gonzales Velâasquez -- The writing on the wall : a border case of race and gender / Birch Moonwoman -- Constructing meaning, constructing selves : snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High / Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet.