Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents: Introduction: Women's Realities and Women's Talk -- Judy Chicago's the dinner party: Empowering women'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 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 perspective in women's talk--