The Women and language debate : a sourcebook

Introduction / Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz and Cristanne Miller

Pt. 1. Female Sexual Drives, Subjectivity, and Language: The Dialogue with/beyond Freud and Lacan. "Femininity" from New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1933) / Sigmund Freud. "The Signification of the Phallus" from Ecrits (1977) / Jacques Lacan. excerpts, "The Semiotic and the Symbolic" from Revolution in Poetic Language (1984) / Julia Kristeva. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book" (1987) / Hortense J. Spillers. "The Laugh of the Medusa" (1976) / Helene Cixous. "This Sex Which Is Not One" from This Sex Which Is Not One (1981) / Luce Irigaray. conclusion, "French Feminism in an International Frame" (1981) / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Pt. 2. Object Relations and Women's Use of Language: Readings from British and American Psychology. "The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship" from The Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment Studies in the Theory of Emotional Development (1965) / D. W. Winnicott. "Gender Differences in the Preoedipal Period" from The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978) / Nancy Chodorow. "Empathy and Self Boundaries" from Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center (1991) / Judith V. Jordan. "The First Bond" from The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (1988) / Jessica Benjamin. "The Sense of a Verbal Self" from The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology (1985) / Daniel N. Stern. "Communication and Cooperation in Early Infancy: A Description of Primary Intersubjectivity" (1979) / Colwyn Trevarthen. "Feeling, Form, and Intention in the Baby's Transition to Language" (1983) / John Dore. "Sex Differences in Parent-Child Interaction" (1987) / Jean Berko Gleason

Pt. 3. Who Says What to Whom?: Empirical Studies on Language and Gender. "Language and Woman's Place" from Language and Woman's Place (1975) / Robin Lakoff. "Instigating" from He-Said-She-Said (1990) / Marjorie Harness Goodwin. "Gender, Politeness, and Confrontation in Tenejapa" (1990) / Penelope Brown. "Jury Instructions Worded in the Masculine Generic: Can a Woman Claim Self-Defense when 'He' Is Threatened?" (1992) / Mykol C. Hamilton, Barbara Hunter and Shannon Stuart-Smith. "The Disappearing Agent: Gender Stereotypes, Interpersonal Verbs, and Implicit Causality" (1993) / Marianne LaFrance and Eugene Hahn. "Rethinking 'Sex Differences' in Conversational Topics: It's Not What They Say but How They Say It" (1992) / Candace West. "Gender, Power, and Miscommunication" (1991) / Nancy M. Henley and Cheris Kramarae. "Between Speech and Silence: The Problematics of Research on Language and Gender" (1991) / Susan Gal. "Think Practically and Look Locally: Language and Gender as Community-Based Practice" (1992) / Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet