Language and Woman's PlaceIn this investigation Lakoff uncovers the roots of our language that classify and delineate te sexes. Why are parallel words - one applying to masculin beings, the other to feminine - not also parallel in their range of use and connotion? Why have the words bachelor/spinster or master/mistress come to mean such widely different things? |
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User Review - keylawk - LibraryThingIt becomes apparent that one of the reasons women are put into "woman's place" is that women like Lakoff keep putting them there: She fails to recognize the achievements of other women, and claims to ... Read full review
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| Title | Language and Woman's Place Volume 389 of Colophon books Volume 389 of Harper colophon books Volume 389 of Perennial library Women's studies : linguistics |
| Authors | Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Robin Lakoff |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1975 |
| ISBN | 0060903899, 9780060903893 |
| Length | 83 pages |
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