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Author:
Montell, Amanda, author.
Title:
Wordslut : a feminist guide to taking back the English language / Amanda Montell.
Edition:
First Harper Wave paperback edition.
Publisher:
Harper Wave,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
291 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Subject:
English language--Etymology.
Feminism.
Contents:
Meet sociolinguistics : what all the cool feminists are talking about -- Slutty skank hoes and nasty dykes : a comprehensive list of gendered insults I hate (but also kind of love?) -- Wait what does the word woman mean anyway? : plus other questions of sex, gender, and the language behind them -- "mm-hmm, girl, you're right" : how women talk to each other when dudes aren't around -- Women didn't ruin the English language - they, like, invented it -- How to embarrass the shit out of people who try to correct your grammar -- How to confuse a catcaller (and other ways to verbally smash the patriarchy) -- Fuck it : an ode to cursing while female -- "Cackling" Clinton and "sexy" Scarjo : the struggle of being a woman in public -- Time to make this book just a little bit gayer -- Cyclops, panty puppet, bald-headed bastard (and 100+ other things to call you genitalia) -- So in one thousand years, will women rule the English language?
Summary:
The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine,
ISBN:
0062868888
9780062868886
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1174869120
Locations:
S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

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