Description |
xv, 352 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Linguistics and the feminist challenge / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Anthropology : social and cultural perspectives / Ruth Borker -- Textual feminism / Nelly Furman -- Proprietors of language / Cheris Kramarae -- The psychology of the generic masculine / Wendy Martyna -- "Don't 'dear' me!" / Nessa Wolfson and Joan Manes -- "Women's language" or "powerless language"? / William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins -- How and why are women more polite : some evidence from a Mayan community / Penelope Brown -- Women in their speech communities / Patricia C. Nichols -- Women's speech : the voice of feminism / Howard Giles ... [et al.] -- Directive-responsive speech sequences in girls' and boys' task activities / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Anger and the politics of naming / Naomi Scheman -- Honing a habitable languagescape : women's images for the new world frontiers / Annette Kolodny -- The silence is broken / Josephine Donovan -- The "feminine" language of Marianne Moore / Bonnie Costello -- The construction of ambiguity in The awakening : a linguistic analysis / Paula A. Treichler -- Women's autobiography in France : for a dialectics of identification / Nancy K. Miller -- Snatches of conversation / Jane Gallop -- Writing like a woman / Jane Gallop -- Reading reading : echo's abduction of language / Caren Greenberg -- Unmaking and making in To the lighthouse / Gayatri C. Spivak. |
Subject |
Women -- Language.
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Language and languages -- Sex differences.
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Sexism -- Language.
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Feminism -- Language.
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Added Author |
McConnell-Ginet, Sally.
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Borker, Ruth.
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Furman, Nelly.
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ISBN |
0030578922 |
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9780030578922 |
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0030578930 paperback |
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9780030578939 paperback |
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0275905209 |
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9780275905200 |
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0275914984 |
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9780275914981 |
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