| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
"Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender"-- Provided by publisher |
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"This book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; A note on quotations; 1 Walking Dictionary, Sleeping Dictionary: Toward a Gendered History of a Rhetorical Genre; 2 Patronizing Dictionaries: Invocations of Women at the Invention of the Genre; 3 Compiling Dictionaries: Lexicography Attributable to Women and Alternative Generic Traditions; 4 Living with and Working for Dictionaries: Women's Contributions and Critique as the Genre Expanded; 5 Reinventing Dictionaries: The Generic Interventions of Feminist Lexicography; Conclusion: Waking Dictionaries: Reimagining the Genre in Light of a Gendered Past; References; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Lexicography -- History.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
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Women in lexicography -- Great Britain.
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Sex role -- Great Britain -- History.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. |
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Women in lexicography |
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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English language -- Lexicography |
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Sex role |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Added Title |
Gender, genre, and English language lexicography |
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Russell, Lindsay Rose, 1980- Women and dictionary-making. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781107187702 (DLC) 2018019476 (OCoLC)1000123100 |
| ISBN |
9781316941553 (electronic book) |
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1316941558 (electronic book) |
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9781316953549 |
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1316953548 |
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1107187702 |
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9781107187702 |
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9781316638194 (paperback) |
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