The Women and language debate a sourcebook (Rutgers University Press, 1994)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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