Gender and Discourse: The Power of Talk.

Introduction: Theories of Gender, Theories of Discourse DISCOURSE IN INTERACTION Paternalism Under the Microscope Cooperation and Competition Across Girls' Play Activities DISCOURSE IN STORYTELLING Becoming a Political Woman: Reconstruction and Interpretation of Experience Through Stories Ideology as Process: Gender Ideology in Courtship Narratives Worlds of Difference: Contrasting Experience in Marriage and Narrative Style INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE Obstetric View of Feminine Identity: A Nineteenth-Century Case History of the Use of Forceps on Unmarried Women in Ireland Rhetoric of Heterosexism CULTURAL DISCOURSE It Just Be's Dat Way Sometime: Sexual Politics of Women's Blues Censorship of Women's Voices on Radio Interpretive Strategies and Sex-Marked Comparative Constructions Making Sense of The Woman Who Becomes a Man Author Index Subject Index