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... female's right to termi- nate a pregnancy is open to question ; the necessity of heterosexual coitus ( fucking ) isn't . The leftmost , vertical portion of Diagram 3.1 divides patriarchal semantic space into three discrete levels ...
... female's right to termi- nate a pregnancy is open to question ; the necessity of heterosexual coitus ( fucking ) isn't . The leftmost , vertical portion of Diagram 3.1 divides patriarchal semantic space into three discrete levels ...
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... female human ' to be used also to refer to females attached to men in the I - E languages , and OE WTf must have been used with both meanings until the original sense gradually disappeared from usage . By the end of the OE period , the ...
... female human ' to be used also to refer to females attached to men in the I - E languages , and OE WTf must have been used with both meanings until the original sense gradually disappeared from usage . By the end of the OE period , the ...
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... female term . In English , most prestige references are understood to belong to the default category [ + male ] unless they are preceded by a female - specific word or carry a [ -male ] suffix such as -ess or -ette . Persons addressed ...
... female term . In English , most prestige references are understood to belong to the default category [ + male ] unless they are preceded by a female - specific word or carry a [ -male ] suffix such as -ess or -ette . Persons addressed ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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