Speaking Out The Female Voice in Public Contexts

This is the first wideranging collection to focus on the female voice in public contexts. The contributors to this volume show how female speech is often received and evaluated quite differently from the speech of men, whether within government and politics, law, the church, education, the business world, or the media. The book is written with passion by a stellar group of scholars in language and gender from around the English-speaking world, offering students a broad theoretical and contextual canvas. They consider both the barriers and the opportunities encountered by women seeking to gain recognition in the public sphere on the basis of "the way they speak".

Judith Baxter is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Reading University.