Includes bibliographies and index

Contents: Introduction: women's realities and women's talk -- Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party': empowering omen's voice in visual art -- Speaking the politics of reproduction: discursive practices at the Emma Goldman Clinic for Women -- Body talk: the politics of weight loss and female identity -- Liberating laughter: an inquiry into the nature, content, and functions of feminist humor -- Shirley Chisholm with black and white women's audiences -- Storytelling strategies in mother-daughter communication -- Coping with victimization: portraits of women in the drama -- Shared leadership in the weavers guild -- Jock Talk: Cooperation and competition within a university women's basketball team -- Women's ways: interactive patterns in predominantly female research teams -- Redwood records: principles and profit in women's music -- Ideology, contradiction, and change in a feminist bookstore -- Implementing feminist principles in a bureaucracy:: Studio D The National Film Board of Canada -- Themes and perspectives in women's talk