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1 online resource (x, 237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in language and gender
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Studies in language and gender.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index. |
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Contents; 1. "Un homme sur deux est une femme": Introduction--Pronoun Envy and Phallogocentrism; 2. "Sexes mêlés je ne sus plus rien distinguer": Nongendered Characters in French; 3. "Was I, perhaps, castrato/a?": Nongendered Characters in English; 4. "La sphyngesse, la taure, et les agnelles nouvelles-nées": Experiments with Lexical Gender in French; 5. "On est quatre dans le même tas": French Epicene on; 6. "Na sat astride Three, na hands on nan throat": Epicene Neologisms in English; 7. "Avant j'étais un transscxuel, maintenant j'étais une femme": Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity. |
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8. "Pendue pour des inventions illicites": ImplicationsNotes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English language -- Gender.
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English language -- Gender. |
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- French.
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English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- French. |
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French language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English.
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French language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English. |
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Nonsexist language in literature.
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Nonsexist language in literature. |
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English language -- Pronoun.
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English language -- Pronoun. |
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French language -- Pronoun.
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French language -- Pronoun. |
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French language -- Gender.
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French language -- Gender. |
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Sexism in literature.
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Sexism in literature. |
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Sexism in language.
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Sexism in language. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Livia, Anna. Pronoun envy. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 019513852X 9780195138528 (DLC) 00021515 (OCoLC)43499395 |
| ISBN |
9780195343922 (electronic book) |
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0195343921 (electronic book) |
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9780195138535 (paperback) |
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0195138538 (paperback) |
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1280834706 |
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9781280834707 |
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019513852X (Cloth) |
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0195138538 |
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9780195138528 |
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