This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume.

The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash offers an illuminating analysis of the theories, politics and realities of boys' education around the world, providing an insightful and often disturbing account of various educational ...

He focuses in particular on their exploration of self-knowledge, sexuality, and death, as well as on their ambiguous figuring of gender. Throughout he provides a comparative context, looking at the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Organised in thematic sections, the reader addresses the origins and development of language and sexuality research from the 1940s to the 1980s; the use people make of language to perform sexuality and sexual identity; how language reflects ...

Notably, the volume looks beyond Europe to Africa, Australia, Asia, and North America, offering a systematic and comparative approach to a subject that has not yet received the scholarly attention it deserves.