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Pronoun envy : literary uses of linguistic gender /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Studies in language and gender.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195343922 0195343921 9780195138535 0195138538 1280834706 9781280834707 9780198031680 0198031688 |