Introduction
Language and gender: issues and applications
Content analysis: the early days
The importance of language and of linguistic analysis of fiction
Happily ever after?
More than fifty years of reading schemes
Stories about two-mum and two-dad families (written with Mark McGlashan)
Miss Katherine shot the sheriff: the literary affordance of achronological intertextuality
Hermione, Harry and gender relations at Hogwarts
Conclusion.