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Until quite recently, research on gender and interaction revolved primarily around the use of gendered categories and third person reference in the English language. Based on data from Greek talk-in-interaction, the aim of this paper is to point to some non-referential aspects of gendering. More specifically, adopting a conversation analytic perspective, instances of collective and individual self-reference – in itself not gendered in Greek – are analysed and shown to acquire gendered meanings in the specific context, without the deployment of terms or categories marked by grammatical or lexical gender. Such self-genderings impact on the gendering of recipients via the reflexivity of participants' roles in interaction. Gendering oneself and others thus emerges as a dynamic process that fully exploits the inherent features of interaction, in interplay with the specific means that a language makes available to its users.

Men and women are not from separate planets. Making an original and significant argument, Gendering Talk puts gendered communication in perspective by showing that the problem with male/female communication is not how men and women talk to each other, but in how they listen. By closely examining the details of actual conversations between women and men—particularly the conversations of people "coupling"—Hopper draws on theories of arousal, relationship development, and play to trace the ways in which romantic couplings begin. Gendering Talk provides an engaging, highly entertaining, and far-reaching analysis of the ways in which people actively gender their talk, each other, and the social world. From the children's game "Farmer in the Dell" to excerpts from classic and modern literature, and the media Hopper convincingly argues that talk between women and men is more alike than different.

Men and women are not from separate planets. Making an original and significant argument, Gendering Talk puts gendered communication in perspective by showing that the problem with male/female communication is not how men and women talk to each other, but in how they listen. By closely examining the details of actual conversations between women and men—particularly the conversations of people "coupling"—Hopper draws on theories of arousal, relationship development, and play to trace the ways in which romantic couplings begin. Gendering Talk provides an engaging, highly entertaining, and far-reaching analysis of the ways in which people actively gender their talk, each other, and the social world. From the children's game "Farmer in the Dell" to excerpts from classic and modern literature, and the media Hopper convincingly argues that talk between women and men is more alike than different.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Gendering Government -- 1 Gender and Political Institutions in Australia and Canada -- 2 Feminist Actors in Australia and Canada: Identities, Ideas, Strategies, and Structures -- 3 The Feminist Electoral Project: Working against the Grain -- 4 The Femocrat Strategy: Challenging Bureaucratic Norms and Structures -- 5 Feminists and the Constitutional and Legal Realms: Creating New Spaces -- 6 Feminists and Federalism: Playing a Multi- Level Game -- 7 Feminists and Institutions: A Two- Way Street -- Notes -- References -- Index.

In Gendering Bodies, Crawley, Foley and Shehan demonstrate how gendered messages about bodies and the social world shape our physical bodies and social selves. At work, in sports and during sex, gendered messages constantly organize our common, everyday settings through a feedback loop of confirmations and disruptions in everyday talk and interaction. This book is an accessible, yet comprehensive, theory of a sociology of the gendered body

Migration patterns, migration discourse and underlying representations, migrants' experiences, obligations and duties as well as the expectations relative to their migration are gendered. Since the pioneering feminist migration scholars' questioning of men as a universal reference and the invisibility of women or their stereotypical representations as dependents in the mainstream production of knowledge on migration, the scholarship has evolved considerably. It is argued in the paper that the ongoing process of cross-fertilization of developments in two separate epistemologies, each initially questioning monolithic and essentialist visions of a "migrant" on one hand and a "woman" on the other, produced a fecund subfield of research "migration and gender". The paper provides an insight into this, reviewing work on the issues related to gendering different phases of migration. Bridging migration and gender brought to the top of research agendas issues that used to be on the margins, creating new visibilities but leaving out other gendered dimensions of complex realities of migrant experience.

A review essay of books by (1) Jill Steans, Gender and International Relations: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 1998); (2) Marysia Zalewski & Jane Parpart (Eds), The 'Man' Question in International Relations (Boulder, CO & Oxford: Westview Press, 1998); (3) Nickie Charles & Helen Hintjens, Gender, Ethnicity and Political Ideologies (London & New York: Routledge, 1998); (4) Isabella Bakker, Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada (Toronto, Buffalo, NY, & London: U Toronto Press, 1996); (5) Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (London & New York: Zed Books, 1997); & (6) Victor Jeleniewski Seidler, Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities (London, Thousand Oaks, CA, & New Delhi: Sage, 1997). These six books all treat gender methodologically in the manner of the "third debate." Steans's introductory text uses feminist theory to relate gender to the state, war, & security, & gestures toward the role of men & masculinities in international relations (IR). Contributors to the Zalewski/Parpart edited volume tackle this subject head-on; notable chapters consider IR as itself a producer of multiple masculinities & "gays in the military" as indicative of a defining gender & sexuality. The Charles/Hintjen edited volume considers women in relation to founding narratives of nationhood & conceptualizations of identity & difference among citizens, & Bakker's edited volume considers women as objects & subjects of economic change in contemporary Canada. Contributions to both books are easily "grossed up" from national to international politics. The Salleh & Speidler monographs are manifestos for a sexual politics against hegemonic masculinities, the former theorizing a materialist ecofeminism based in female subsistence labor, & the latter advocating men's groups to link invigorating feelings to politics. Adapted from the source document.