Chapter 1 Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts

Chapter 2 Gaining a Public Voice: A Historical Perspective on American Women’s Public Speaking

Chapter 3 Constructing Gender in Public Arguments: The Female Voice as Emotional Voice

Chapter 4 Gender and Performance Anxiety at Academic Conferences

Chapter 5 Governed by the Rules?: The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates

Chapter 6 Silence as Morality: Lecturing at a Theological College

Chapter 7 Gender and the Genre of the Broadcast Political Interview

Chapter 8 Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities

Chapter 9 ‘Do We Have to Agree with Her?’ How High School Girls Negotiate Leadership in Public Contexts

Chapter 10 Positioning the Female Voice within Work and Family

Chapter 11 Culture, Voice and the Public Sphere: A Critical Analysis of the Female Voices on Sexuality in Indigenous South African Society

Chapter 12 “They Say It’s a Man’s World, but You Can’t Prove that by Me”: African American Comediennes’ Construction of Voice in Public Space