This volume investigates the linguistic representation of women and men in 30 languages. Fundamental to the text is the hypothesis that the formal and functional manifestations of gender in the area of human reference follow general, and perhaps universal principles in the world's languages.

1. Languages of Volume I and III; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgments; 4. List of abbreviations; 5. Gender across languages: The linguistic representation of women and men (by Hellinger, Marlis); 6. Chinese. Editors' note; 7. Chinese. In Chinese, men and women are equal - or - women and men are equal? (by Ettner, Charles); 8. Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese (by Chan, Marjorie K.M.); 9. Chinese. Reality and representation: Social control and gender relations in Mandarin Chinese proverbs (by Zhang, Hong); 10. Dutch. Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch (by Gerritsen, Marinel); 11. Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish (by Engelberg, Mila); 12. Hindi. "Unnatural" gender in Hindi (by Hall, Kira); 13. Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic (by Gronberg, Anna Gunnarsdotter); 14. Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian (by Marcato, Gianna); 15. Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian (by Bull, Tove); 16. Spanish. Gender in Spanish: Tradition and innovation (by Nissen, Uwe Kjaer); 17. Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese: Variation and change (by Pham, Hoa); 18. Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales (by Awbery, Gwenllian M.); 19. Notes on contributors; 20. Name index; 21. Subject index