Contributions to this work deal not only with grammatical gender but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures including Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden.

1. Preface (by Kotthoff, Helga); 2. 1. Symbols and Rules; 3. Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless forms (by Braun, Friederike); 4. "Male person" vs. "Everything that is not a male person". Gender and sex in Polish (by Miemitz, Barbel); 5. Gender, grammar, and the space in between (by Romaine, Suzanne); 6. 2. Conversational Features, Codes and Activities; 7. The interplay between interruptions and preference organization in conversation. New perspectives on a classic topic of gender research (by Ahrens, Ulrike); 8. Is Spain different? Observations on male-female communicative styles in a Spanish group discussion (by Bierbach, Christine); 9. The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by "Teaching Conversational Lectures"in TV discussions (by Kotthoff, Helga); 10. Complaint stories. Constructing emotional reciprocity among women (by Gunthner, Susanne); 11. Women and men in the academic discourse community (by Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise); 12. Communicating gender in two languages (by Cheshire, Jenny); 13. 3. A Range of Feminities; 14. Competing discourse of feminity (by Coates, Jennifer); 15. Race, gender and academic leadership (by Essed, Philomena); 16. "I know, we won't revolutionize the world with it, but...": Styles of female leadership in institutions (by Wodak, Ruth); 17. Do's and dont's. Gender representations in a political debate (by Felderer, Brigitte); 18. The relevance of fundamental frequency contour for interruptions: A case study of political discussion in Austria (by Moosmuller, Sylvia)