Gender in interaction : perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse / edited by Bettina Baron, Helga Kotthoff.

Other author Baron, Bettina.
Other author Kotthoff, Helga.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2001.
Descriptionxxiv, 352 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentBook review (H-Net)
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SeriesGender & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 93
Pragmatics & beyond new ser. 93. ^A284504
Contents Preface / Helga Kotthoff, Bettina Baron -- Part I. Introduction -- Gender and interaction: widening the conceptual scope / Barrie Thorne -- Part II. Perspectives on gender in childhood and adolescence -- Girls oppositional stances: the interactional accomplishment of gender in nursery school and family life / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Constituting the emotions: a longitudinal study of emotion talk in a preschool friendship group of boys / Amy Kyratzis -- Notably gendered relations: relationship work in early adolescents' notes / Spencer E. Cahill -- Far from sugar and spice: teenage girls, embodiment and representation / Gerry Bloustein -- Part III. Perspectives on masculinity -- Masculinities and men's health / R.W. Connell -- Gender and habitus: fundamental securities and crisis tendencies among men / Cornelia Behnke, Michael Meuser -- "Male honor": towards an understanding of the construction of gender among youths of Turkish origin / Ralf Bohnsack, Peter Loos, Aglaja Przyborski -- Part IV. Perspectives on femininity -- Arguing among scholars: female scientists and their shaping of expertise / Bettina Baron -- Academic women in the male university field: communicative practices at postgraduate seminars / Britt-Louise Gunnarsson -- Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals / Helga Kotthoff -- Theorizing gender: feminist awareness and language change / Rachel Giora
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2001043921
ISBN1588111105 (alk. paper)
ISBN9027251126