Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Language, gender and economies in global transitions: Provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated -- Section I. Scattered hegemonies -- Chapter 1. Symbolically central and materially marginal: Women's talk in a Tongan work group -- Chapter 2. "Re-employment stars": Language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China -- Chapter 3. When Aboriginal equals "at risk": The impact of an institutional keyword on Aboriginal Head Start families -- Section II. Emerging into history -- Chapter 4. Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India: On agency and the politics of voice -- Chapter 5. Echoes of modernity: Nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan -- Chapter 6. Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines: Erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality -- Chapter 7. Out on video: Gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic Northern Nigeria -- Section III. Multilingualism, globalization and nationalism -- Chapter 8. Gender and bilingualism in the new economy -- Chapter 9. African women in Catalan language courses: Struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism -- Chapter 10. Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam -- Section IV. Commodities and cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 11. Shop talk: Branding, consumption, and gender in American middle-class youth interaction -- Chapter 12. Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China: Language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing -- Chapter 13. Gender and interaction in a globalizing world: Negotiating the gendered self in Tonga -- Backmatter