Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 82
Page 30
... idea of castration . . . the hole is an obscene expectation ... ( Holland , 1978 , 74 ) Sartre obviously had a " problem , " but , as usual , he described it as women's " fault . " WOMEN ARE CONTAINERS / RECEPTACLES , into which men ...
... idea of castration . . . the hole is an obscene expectation ... ( Holland , 1978 , 74 ) Sartre obviously had a " problem , " but , as usual , he described it as women's " fault . " WOMEN ARE CONTAINERS / RECEPTACLES , into which men ...
Page 31
... idea space " is , then , not external , but internal . WOMAN IS A CONTAINER . MEN INSERT THEIR PENISES INTO WOMEN . WOMEN MUST BE PURE . LANGUAGE IS A CONTAINER . MEN INSERT THEIR IDEAS INTO LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE MUST BE PURE . LANGUAGE ...
... idea space " is , then , not external , but internal . WOMAN IS A CONTAINER . MEN INSERT THEIR PENISES INTO WOMEN . WOMEN MUST BE PURE . LANGUAGE IS A CONTAINER . MEN INSERT THEIR IDEAS INTO LANGUAGE . LANGUAGE MUST BE PURE . LANGUAGE ...
Page 63
... ideas persist , not because they're " true " or accu- rate , but because men like them . The idea that the sun is male and the moon female has a long tradition in the west that continues today . Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contains a ...
... ideas persist , not because they're " true " or accu- rate , but because men like them . The idea that the sun is male and the moon female has a long tradition in the west that continues today . Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contains a ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
15 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues Julia Penelope No preview available - 1990 |
Common terms and phrases
action adjectives agency agent agentless passives analysis assertion assume assumptions attribute Baugh behaviors chapter conceptual consensus reality context culture deictic describe descriptions dialect Dictionary discussion distinction Dyirbal English language euphemism example explicit fact false deixis father feelings female female-specific feminine Feminist force fuck function gender girl grammarians grammatical gender heterosexual human nouns idea identify implied interpret Jespersen Láadan label Lakoff language Latin Lesbian linguistic lives male dominance Mary Daly masculine meaning men's metaphors misogyny modal morphemes Norman French noun phrase objects ourselves patriarchal perceive perceptions person predicates prescriptive grammars pronoun psych-predicates rape readers reality reference relationship responsible rhetorical rules semantic sentence sex-specific sexual social someone speak specific speech structure suggests suppressed Suzette Haden Elgin syntactic talk tense thing tion topic universe of discourse verb vocabulary woman women words writing