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The present volume of essays examines women's communication as it has evolved historically across multiple mediums. Part I explores how women became "gossip girls" and the important role of gossip in the perception and practice of female communication. Essays in Part II cover the convergence of oral and written communication in women's literature. Gendered performance in such arenas as salsa dance, Dr. Phil and the Internet is examined in Part III, and essays in Part IV discuss women's communication in the technology-rich 21st century.
Contents
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INTRODUCTION: WOMEN AND ORAL CULTURE
Melissa Ames and Sarah Himsel Burcon
PART I. SPOKEN SPACES: THE HISTORICIZATION, EVOLUTION, AND GENDERING OF "GOSSIP"
1. Pandora's Voice-Box: How Woman Became the "Gossip Girl"
Giselle Bastin
2. Just Like a Woman: Misogynistic Gossip in the Correspondence Between John Chamberlain and Sir Dudley Carleton
Emily Ross
3. "Paper cannot blush": Martha Fowke, an 18th-Century Abandoned Woman
Earla Wilputte
PART II. LITERARY SPACES: THE CONVERGENCE OF ORALITY AND PRINT IN WOMEN'S WRITING
4. Delete as Appropriate: Writing Between the Lines of Female Orality in The Wife's Lament
Miriam Muth
5. Voicing the Feminine and the (Absent) Masculine in The Concealed Fancies
Lindsay Yakimyshyn
6. The Wartime Diaries of Dang Thuy Tram: Extolling and Gendering the Heroine's Voice in Postwar Vietnam and Beyond
Hanh N. Nguyen and R. C. Lutz
7. When Talk Meets Page: The Feminist Aesthetic of Adapted Narration and Language Play
Melissa Ames
8. Blurred Boundaries and Re-Told Histories: Julia Alvarez's How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Sarah Himsel Burcon
PART III. PERFORMATIVE SPACES: CONSTRUCTING AND INSTRUCTING GENDERED BEHAVIOR
9. Bodies in Dialogue: Performing Gender and Sexuality in Salsa Dance
Aleysia Whitmore
10. "Tell me, does she talk during sex?" The Gendering of Permissible Speech on Dr. Phil
Diana York Blaine
11. Read My Profile: Internet Profile Culture, Young Women, and the Communication of Power
Ashley M. Donnelly
PART IV. TECHNOLOGICAL SPACES: TRANSFORMING "TALK" IN THE 21ST CENTURY
12. Women, Kin-Keeping, and the Inscription of Gender in Mediated Communication Environments
Julie Dare
13. Gendering the Construction of Instant Messaging
Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
14. Gender Blogging: Femininity and Communication Practices on the Internet
Adriana Braga
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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