Women and language in literature and society / edited by Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, Nelly Furman.

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Other Authors: McConnell-Ginet, Sally., Borker, Ruth., Furman, Nelly.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Praeger, 1980.
Series:Praeger special studies
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Table of 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 [and others]
  • 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.