Children's gender indexing in language: from the separate worlds hypothesis to considerations of culture, context, and power / Amy Kyratzis -- Gender and language in Japanese preschool children / Keiko Nakamura -- Preschool girls' and boys' verbal conflict strategies in the United States and China / Amy Kyratzis and Jiansheng Guo -- Organizing participation in cross-sex jump rope: situating gender differences within longitudinal studies of activities / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Classroom "families": cooperating or competing- girls' and boys' interactional styles in a bilingual classroom / Jenny Cook-Gumperz and Margaret Szymanski -- The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: cultural factors / Susan Ervin-Tripp