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The women and language debate : a sourcebook / edited by Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Language.
- Women.
- Language and languages--Sex differences.
- Language and languages.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 469 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1994.
- Contents:
- pt. 1, Female sex drives, subjectivity, and language : the dialogue with/beyond Freud and Lacan
- Femininity / Sigmund Freud
- The signification of the phallus / Jacques Lacan
- The semiotic and the symbolic / Julia Kristeva
- Mama's baby, papa's maybe : an American grammar book / Hortense J. Spillers
- The laugh of the medusa / Helene Cixous
- This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray
- French feminism in an international frame / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- pt. 2, Object relations and women's use of language : readings from British and American psychology
- The theory of the parent-infant relationship / D.W. Winnicott
- Gender differences in the preoedipal period / Nancy Chodorow
- Empathy and self boundaries / Judith V. Jordan
- The first bond / Jessica Benjamin
- The sense of a verbal self / Daniel N. Stern
- Communication and cooperation in early infancy : a description of primary intersubjectivity / Colwyn Trevarthen
- Feeling, form, and intention in the baby's transition to language / John Dore
- Sex differences in parent-child interaction / Jean Berko Gleason
- pt. 3, Who ways what to whom? : empirical studies on language and gender
- Language and woman's place / Robin Lakoff
- Instigating / Marjorie Harness Goodwin
- Gender, politeness, and confrontation in Tenejapa / Penelope Brown
- Jury instructions worded in the masculine generic : can a woman claim self-defense when 'he' is threatened? / Mykol C. Hamilton, Barbara Hunter, and Shannon Stuart-Smith
- The disappearing agent : gender stereotypes, interpersonal verbs, and implicit causality / Marianne LaFrance and Eugene Hahn
- Rethinking 'sex differences' in conversational topics : it's not what they say but how they say it / Candace West
- Gender, power, and miscommunication / Nancy M. Henley and Cheris Kramarae
- Between speech and silence : the problematics of research on language and gender / Susan Gal
- Think practically and look locally : language and gender as community-based practice / Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-6725-4
- 0-585-03362-5
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