Introduction : women and oral culture
Spoken spaces : the historicization, evolution, and gendering of "gossip"
Pandora's voice-box : how woman became the "gossip girl" / Giselle Bastin
Just like a woman : misogynistic gossip in the correspondence between John Chamberlain and Sir Dudley Carleton / Emily Ross
"Paper cannot blush" : Martha Fowke, an 18th-century abandoned woman / Earla Wilputte
Literary spaces : the convergence of orality and print in women's writing
Delete as appropriate : writing between the lines of female orality in the wife's lament / Miriam Muth
Voicing the feminine and the (absent) masculine in the concealed fancies / Lindsay Yakimyshyn
The wartime diaries of Dang Thuy Tram : extolling and gendering the heroine's voice in postwar Vietnam and beyond / Hanh N. Nguyen and R. C. Lutz
When talk meets page : the feminist aesthetic of adapted narration and language play / Melissa Ames
Blurred boundaries and re-told histories : Julia Alvarez's how the Garc'a girls lost their accents / Sarah Himsel Burcon
Performative spaces : constructing and instructing gendered behavior
Bodies in dialogue : performing gender and sexuality in salsa dance / Aleysia Whitmore
"Tell me, does she talk during sex?" : the gendering of permissible speech on Dr. Phil / Diana York Blaine
Read my profile : internet profile culture, young women, and the communication of power / Ashley M. Donnelly
Technological spaces : transforming "talk" in the 21st century
Women, kin-keeping, and the inscription of gender in mediated communication environments / Julie Dare
Gendering the construction of instant messaging / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi
Gender blogging : femininity and communication practices on the internet / Adriana Braga.