Language and Woman's Place
Select Format
Select Condition 
Book Overview
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060903899
ISBN13:9780060903893
Release Date:January 1975
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:83 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A Classic in its time
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
During the late 1970's and early 1980's I bought dozens of copies of this book for everyone I knew. This was in the days before politically correct language, and the work environment was demeaning to many women. My favorite line is the book was about how women avoid rough language, and how inappropriate that avoidance is. "Oh, fudge, your hair is on fire." is one of the examples that I remember 30 years later. This is great reading and can give a real sense of what that timeframe in history was like. It's been recognized as a classic. You'll even find it in Wikipedia.
open to criticism, but still a classic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
It has been almost 3 decades since the publication of Language and Woman's Place. Though it was a 'pioneering' work at the time of its publication, there has been a stream of research in the language and gender area since then, and now it has become a 'classic'. Being a classic doesn't mean that it is immune from criticism, though. One thing that stands out to today's readers is that it is almost 'sexist' in "measuring women's language against men's", that is taking male language as 'norm' and viewing woman's as a "deviation" from it. It was in this "male-as-norm" tradition of research, for instance, that she could speculate that women use more tag questions than men because they learn the lesson not to be as assertive as they are. However, the book is a delightful read for anyone interested in the issue of language and its relationship to sexual oppression. It is very readable and anticipates such subsequent studies as Dale Spender's Man Made Language in many ways.
Copyright © 2025 Thriftbooks.com
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information | Cookie Policy | Cookie Preferences | Accessibility Statement
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
