Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage - Softcover

Francine Wattman Frank (author) & Paula A. Treichler (author)

 
9780873521796: Language, Gender, and Professional Writing: Theoretical Approaches and Guidelines for Nonsexist Usage
Softcover
ISBN 10: 087352179X ISBN 13: 9780873521796
Publisher: Modern Language Association, 1989

Synopsis

This book explores biased usage in depth―its origins, its effect, the related controversies―and provides sensible and sensitive guidelines for nondiscriminatory speech and writing.

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About the Author

Paula A. Treichler is a professor at the University of Illinois, where she holds positions in the College of Medicine, the Institute of Communications Research, and the Women??'s Studies Program. Her writings on AIDS have appeared in such journals as Science, ArtForum, October, Transition, and Camera Obscura. She is the coauthor of Language, Gender, and Professional Writing and A Feminist Dictionary and the coeditor of For Alma Mater, Cultural Studies, and The Visible Woman.

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Publisher
Modern Language Association
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
087352179X
ISBN 13 
9780873521796
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
341

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