Talbot claims that the aim of her book is to “increase people's awareness of language and gender, particularly their awareness of the significant role it language plays into establishing and sustaining gender divisions” (3). This book is particularly useful because it provides an overview of recent literature on this topic, as well as the different perspectives and "schools of thought" and the contexts in which they operate. The discussion of gender stereotypes, gender interaction, and the discursive construction of gender in the first chapter provides a good overview of early work in the field, as well as defining important key concepts that are still applicable in more recent research. Chapter six is ​​where the discussion of a post-structuralist view of language is introduced. I found this chapter particularly compelling because it is here that the construction of gender identities is examined, as well as a critique of difference and the dominant framework. Although this chapter serves only as an introduction to poststructuralist thought, there is valuable information to be gleaned not only for its view of language from this particular frame of reference, but also for the critical review of frameworks of difference and dominance. The criticism