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Sto caricando le informazioni... Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Wordsdi Jenni Nuttall
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I finished this book, but I had to push myself to do so. One of those word books where I go “hmmm interesting” while I read it, then promptly forget everything I read. ( ) I love books about language and its history, and these were both wonderfully covered here in the words specifically connected to women. The only weird part was that the audiobook was read by an American when the author is obviously British, so it was a strange pick for narrator as well as being rather odd listening. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When we look to the past, we often expect to be disappointed. In the history of language, we expect to find misogyny around each corner, a disdain for or absence of the voice of women. But the history of women's words, as it turns out, is full of surprises. From the monthly flux or flowers to the maegs that experience them, from the original helpmeet, Eve, to the viragos who fronted early feminism, it is undeniable that there was a wealth of riches for describing our experiences, our lives and our selves. In fact, as women have made slow progress towards equality, we've paradoxically lost some of the most expressive and eloquent bits of our vocabulary. Here, Jenni Nuttall shines a light on them, to dust them off and see if we've any use for them today. "Mother Tongue" is a rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words, of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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