Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries (Studies in Language and Gender) - Softcover

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195167570 ISBN 13: 9780195167573

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2004

Synopsis

The 1975 publication of Language and Woman's Place, with its argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This volume presents the original text along with commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality. The new edition places the text in contemporary context for a new generation of readers.

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Review

an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of I WPR ... The book establishes with authority I WPRs status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender. (Marlis Hellinger, Historiographia Linguistica)

About the Author

Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0195167570
• ISBN 13: 9780195167573
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Bucholtz Mary