Feminist Critique of Language: second edition
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Why has language been such a central issue in 20th-century feminist politics? This work serves as both a guide to the major debates and directions in current feminist thinking about language and a digest of the history of 20th-century feminist ideas about language. This edition has been updated and expanded to take account of recent developments in feminist debates about language and includes new material on sexist language and political correctness and gender and langauge on the Internet. It includes extracts from Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall.
Author: Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford, UK)
Format: Paperback, 388 pages, 174mm x 246mm, 725 g
Published: 1998, Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Linguistics
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Why has language been such a central issue in 20th-century feminist politics? This work serves as both a guide to the major debates and directions in current feminist thinking about language and a digest of the history of 20th-century feminist ideas about language. This edition has been updated and expanded to take account of recent developments in feminist debates about language and includes new material on sexist language and political correctness and gender and langauge on the Internet. It includes extracts from Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall.
Feminist Critique of Language: second edition