Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology
Subtitle: Cultural Models and Real People (Studies in Language and Gender)
Contributors: Shigeko Okamoto (Editor); Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 2, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780195166187
First sentence: For the first two decades of its history, language and gender research could not free itself from a persistent essentialism that assumed women and men, and "women's language" and "men's language," as internally undifferentiated categories.