First edition. Contents: Walking Dictionary, Sleeping Dictionary: Toward a Gendered History of a Rhetorical Genre; Patronizing Dictionaries: Invocations of Women at the Invention of the Genre; Compiling Dictionaries: Lexicography Attributable to Women and Alternative Generic Traditions; Living with and Working for Dictionaries: Women's Contributions and Critique as the Genre Expanded; Reinventing Dictionaries: The Generic Interventions of Feminist Lexicography; Conclusion: Waking Dictionaries: Reimagining the Genre in Light of a Gendered past; References; Index.