Introduction: women and oral culture -- Spoken spaces : the historicization, evolution, and gendering of "gossip" -- Pandora's voice-box : how woman became the "gossip girl" / Giselle Bastin -- Just like a woman : misogynistic gossip in the correspondence between John Chamberlain and Sir Dudley Carleton / Emily Ross -- "Paper cannot blush" : Martha Fowke, an 18th-century abandoned woman / Earla Wilputte -- Literary spaces : the convergence of orality and print in women's writing -- Delete as appropriate : writing between the lines of female orality in The wife's lament / Miriam Muth -- Voicing the feminine and the (absent) masculine in The concealed fancies / Lindsay Yakimyshyn -- The wartime diaries of Dang Thuy Tram : extolling and gendering the heroine's voice in postwar Vietnam and beyond / Hanh N. Nguyen and R. C. Lutz -- When talk meets page : the feminist aesthetic of adapted narration and language play / Melissa Ames -- Blurred boundaries and re-told histories : Julia Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents / Sarah Himsel Burcon -- Performative spaces : constructing and instructing gendered behavior -- Bodies in dialogue : performing gender and sexuality in salsa dance / Aleysia Whitmore -- "Tell me, does she talk during sex?" : the gendering of permissible speech on Dr. Phil / Diana York Blaine -- Read my profile : internet profile culture, young women, and the communication of power / Ashley M. Donnelly -- Technological spaces : transforming "talk" in the 21st century -- Women, kin-keeping, and the inscription of gender in mediated communication environments / Julie Dare -- Gendering the construction of instant messaging / Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi -- Gender blogging : femininity and communication practices on the internet / Adriana Braga.