The Feminist Critique of Language: A ReaderDeborah Cameron The Feminist Critique of Language provides a wide-ranging selection of writings on language, gender, and feminist thought. It serves both as a guide to the current debates and directions and as a digest of the history of twentieth-century feminist ideas about language. This edition includes extracts from Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE | 25 |
Trinh T Minhha | 38 |
Cora Kaplan | 54 |
Sara Mills | 65 |
FURTHER READING FOR PART ONE | 79 |
APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE | 83 |
Dale Spender | 93 |
Maria Black and Rosalind Coward | 100 |
Sally McConnellGinet | 198 |
FURTHER READING FOR PART TWO | 211 |
PERFORMING GENDER | 218 |
Otto Jespersen | 225 |
Robin Lakoff | 242 |
Pamela Fishman | 253 |
Deborah Tannen | 261 |
Aki Uchida | 280 |
Luce Irigaray | 119 |
Douglas Hofstadter | 141 |
Margaret Doyle | 149 |
Deborah Cameron | 155 |
Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King | 164 |
Kate Clark | 183 |
Jennifer Coates | 295 |
Kira Hall | 321 |
FURTHER READING FOR PART THREE | 343 |
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