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Safe in a Midwife's Hands
A Ms. Magazine "e;Most Anticipated Feminist Book of 2023"e;After a less-than-positive experience giving birth as a Black woman in the 1970s, Linda Janet Holmes launched a …
Gendered Talk at Work
Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by …
Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the study of the interaction between language and society. In this classic introductory work, Janet Holmes and Nick Wilson examine the role of language in a …
Language Matters
This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language by focusing on questions such as: - Where does language come from? - Why don't we all talk the same? - Who …
Handbook of Language and Gender
The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage …
Women, Men and Politeness
Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally.Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected …
Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a …
Listen to Me Good
Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural …
Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse
The chapters in this book illustrate a range of cutting edge research in language and gender studies, with contributions from a number of internationally recognised experts. The …
Heritage of Light
The nineteenth century opened in the flicker of tallow candles and closed in the glare of Edison's electric lamp. Between those two events inventors and manufacturers developed a …
Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity
This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to …