Talking Difference: On Gender and Language, Vol. 7 Book

	Preface
1	Talking across the Gender Gap	1
	Gender as Difference	3
	Reframing Gender and Language: a Social Constructionist Approach	12
	A Social Constructionist View of Language	17
	Organization of the Book	18
2	The Search for a Women's Language	22
	Language and Woman's Place: the Influence of Robin Lakoff	23
	The Quest for Difference: Empirical Research on Women's Language	26
	Women's Language: a Research Critique	29
	Reframing Women's Language	41
3	The Assertiveness Bandwagon	49
	Assertiveness as a Psychological Construct	53
	Deconstructing Assertiveness	56
	New Approaches to Assertiveness	74
	The Social Construction of the New Assertive Woman: Summary and Conclusions	84
4	Two Sexes, Two Cultures	86
	Cross-cultural Talk	86
	The Two-cultures Approach: an Evaluation	93
	The Bandwagon Revisited	97
	Miscommunication and Rape	108
	The Social Construction of Miscommunication	127
5	On Conversational Humor	129
	Humor as Collaborative Activity	130
	Designed for Difference: Research on Humor	135
	Gender and Conversational Humor: New Approaches to Difference and Dominance	140
	Humor as a Feminist Strategy	153
	Feminist Humor as Political Action	160
6	Toward a Feminist Theory of Gender and Communication	170
	Theories and Methods: a Plurality	172
	Toward a Political Feminist Psychology	175
	On Feminist Identity and Social Change	179
	Appendix: Transcribing Conventions	181
	References	183
	Index	201