Words, worlds, and material girls : language, gender, globalization / edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.