The papers in this collection do not only look at interaction between the sexes, they also look at gender as an interactional achievement, and at the social category of gender in interaction with other social parameters such as age, status, prestige, or institutional and ethnic frameworks.

1. Preface (by Kotthoff, Helga); 2. Part I: Introduction; 3. Gender and interaction: Widening the conceptual scope (by Thorne, Barrie); 4. Part II: Perspectives on gender in childhood and adolescence; 5. Girls' oppositional stances: The interactional accomplishment of gender in nursery school and family life (by Cook-Gumperz, Jenny); 6. Constituting the emotions: A longitudinal study of emotion talk in a preschool friendship group of boys (by Kyratzis, Amy); 7. Notably gendered relations: Relationship work in early adolescents' notes (by Cahill, Spencer E.); 8. Far from sugar and spice: Teenage girls, embodiment and representation (by Bloustien, Gerry); 9. Part III: Perspectives on masculinity; 10. Masculinities and men's health (by Connell, R. W.); 11. Gender and habitus: Fundamental securities and crisis tendencies among men (by Meuser, Michael); 12. "Male honor": Towards an understanding of the construction of gender relations among youths of Turkish origin (by Bohnsack, Ralf); 13. Part IV: Perspectives on femininity; 14. Arguing among scholars: Female scientists and their shaping of expertise (by Baron, Bettina); 15. Academic women in the male university field: Communicative practices at postgraduate seminars (by Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise); 16. Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals (by Kotthoff, Helga); 17. Theorizing gender: Feminist awareness and language change (by Giora, Rachel); 18. Subject index