Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 20-42

  Mcelhinny, Bonnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feminist activism; Gender; Linguistic anthropology; Scholars; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948955830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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