Now that the conspiracies of silence have begun to evaporate, scholarly works on gender and transgender have begun to proliferate. This very interesting collection of papers is an example of the fruitful amplification of the field.
Papers by 15 scholars are here collected and well indicate the levels of interest now being pursued. Linguistic study as applied to gender terminology is particularly well represented.
Yuriko Nagata and Kristen Sullivan write on the hegemony of gender in language -- the marked difference between men and women's vocabularies, particularly the consequent construction of an apparent "feminity" (and "masculinity"). Tomoko Aoyama presents "girl's inter-text/sex-uality," Wim Lunsing contributes an excellent discussion of the politics of such sexually loaded nouns as okama and onabe (pejorative terms for male and female homosexuals), and Laura Dales writes about feminist vocabulary in the works of Yoko Haruka and Minori Kitahara.