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 int...
| Main Author: | Montell, Amanda (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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 your genitalia)
- so... in one thousand years, will women rule the english language?