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Man made language /
By: Spender, Dale
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Publisher: London ; New York : Pandora, c1998Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xiv, 250 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0863584012; 9780863584015:; 9780863584015.Subject(s): Sexism in language | Sociolinguistics | Language and languages -- Sex differences | Language, ArtificialDDC classification: 408 Summary: This edition of this feminist study of language offers clear analysis of the ways in which our language is "man-made", of all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the masculine is asserted as the norm, while feminine experience is muted and pushed to the margins of life and language.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-246) and index.
This edition of this feminist study of language offers clear analysis of the ways in which our language is "man-made", of all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the masculine is asserted as the norm, while feminine experience is muted and pushed to the margins of life and language.