Wordslut a feminist guide to taking back the English language
The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to gender at all--it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a f...
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Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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