Table of Contents
Introduction, Anna Livia and Kira Hall, EditorsPart 1: LAVENDER LEXICALITYTwo Lavender Issues for Linguists, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University and Ohio State UniversityThe Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change, M. Lynne MurphyLes Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Pre-Modern France, Randy P. Conner, University of TexasThe Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Ian LucasPots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination, James ValentineTalking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech, Michael J. SweetRead My Lips: Clypping and Kyssing in the 16th Century, Diane Watt, University of Aberystwyth, WalesSappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love, Marie-Jo Bonnet, Paris FranceLexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs, Mala Kleinfeld and Noni WarnerThe Elusive "Bisexual", Lynne Murphy, University of Witwatersrand, South AfricaPart 2: QUEERSPEAKThe Homo-Genius Community, Rusty Barrett, University of Texas at Austin"Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays, Elizabeth Morrish, Nottingham Trent UniversityQue(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity, Jennifer Coates and Mary Ellen Jordan, Roehampton Institute and Melbourne University"I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language, Robin M. QueenNarrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail, Lesbian Coming- Out Stories, Kathleen M. WoodThe Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories, A. C. LiangPerformative Effect in Three Gay English Texts, William Leap, American UniversityHomophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students, James Armstrong, State University of New York, PlattsburghDeaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative, Tina Neumann, Gallaudet UniversityToward the Study of Lesbian Speech, Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Ohio State UniversityPart 3: LINGUISTIC GENDER-BENDINGDisloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French, Anna LiviaSurrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry, Bruce Bagemihl, University of British Colombia, CanadaLinguistic Gender Play amoung French Gays and Lesbians, Genevieve Pastre, Publisher, les Octaviennes, FranceThe Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan, Janet Shibamoto Smith, University of California at DavisNot Talking Straight in Hausa, Rudolf Gaudio, Stanford UniversityGo Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane: Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult, Kira Hall, University of California at Berkeley
