The women and language debate : a sourcebook Pt. 1 Female sex drives subjectivity and language : the dialogue with beyond Freud and Lacan Femininity Sigmund Freud The signification of the phallus Jacques Lacan The semiotic and the symbolic Julia Kristeva Mamas baby papas maybe : an American grammar book Hortense J. Spillers The laugh of the medusa Helene Cixous This sex which is not one Luce Irigaray French feminism in an international frame Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Pt. 2 Object relations and womens use of language : readings from British and American psychology The theory of the parent infant relationship D.W. Winnicott Gender differences in the preoedipal period Nancy Chodorow Empathy and self boundaries Judith V. Jordan The first bond Jessica Benjamin The sense of a verbal self Daniel N. Stern Communication and cooperation in early infancy : a description of primary intersubjectivity Colwyn Trevarthen Feeling form and intention in the babys transition to language John Dore Sex differences in parent child interaction Jean Berko Gleason Pt. 3 Who ways what to whom : empirical studies on language and gender Language and womans place Robin Lakoff Instigating Marjorie Harness Goodwin Gender politeness and confrontation in Tenejapa Penelope Brown Jury instructions worded in the masculine generic : can a woman claim self defense when he is threatened Mykol C. Hamilton Barbara Hunter and Shannon Stuart Smith The disappearing agent : gender stereotypes interpersonal verbs and implicit causality Marianne LaFrance and Eugene Hahn Rethinking sex differences in conversational topics : its not what they say but how they say it Candace West Gender power and miscommunication Nancy M. Henley and Cheris Kramarae Between speech and silence : the problematics of research on language and gender Susan Gal Think practically and look locally : language and gender as community based practice Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell Ginet