Untying the Tongue
Subtitle: Gender, Power, and the Word (Contributions in Women's Studies)
Contributors: Linda Longmire (Editor); Lisa Merrill (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: August 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780313306860
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Sociolinguistics; Communication (Specific Aspects); Feminism; Language Arts & Disciplines; Sociology; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Communication; General; Communication and sex; Power (Social sciences)
First sentence: The role of language in women's subordination has been energetically discussed by feminist activists, as well as by scholars in a variety of disciplines, for more than twenty years.