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... WOMAN IS A CONTAINER : LANGUAGE IS A WOMAN . This complex metaphor combines two essential patriarchal premises . The paral- lelism , represented in the following diagram , is unmistakable . The observ- able overlap in these complex ...
... WOMAN IS A CONTAINER : LANGUAGE IS A WOMAN . This complex metaphor combines two essential patriarchal premises . The paral- lelism , represented in the following diagram , is unmistakable . The observ- able overlap in these complex ...
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... woman and , being a woman in this patriarchal culture , one is also neces- sarily " feminine " and " womanly . " This entailment relation makes female and feminine synonymous in English ; " being feminine " is used as though it meant ...
... woman and , being a woman in this patriarchal culture , one is also neces- sarily " feminine " and " womanly . " This entailment relation makes female and feminine synonymous in English ; " being feminine " is used as though it meant ...
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... woman inside a house is ordinary ; a woman outside a house is noteworthy . The word husband , for example , now indisputably a [ + male ] noun , referred to a woman in the made - for - tv movie This Wife for Hire : a woman starts a ...
... woman inside a house is ordinary ; a woman outside a house is noteworthy . The word husband , for example , now indisputably a [ + male ] noun , referred to a woman in the made - for - tv movie This Wife for Hire : a woman starts a ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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