Wordslut
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Wordslut

A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wordslut

A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

About this book

Responding to our current state of linguistic crisis, Amanda Montell has set out to tackle why words matter and why it's imperative that women embrace their unique relationship with language. Filled with fascinating research from sociolinguistics but steeped in pop culture, this book shows that women and minorities are uniquely equipped to dominate and conquer the English language. Far from being easily crushed by mansplainers and misogynists, women and marginalized people have a superior capacity to adapt more quickly to linguistic change and tend to be at the forefront of linguistic trends. You'll learn the origin of words like 'like' (it actually has six functions and, yes, every one of them is worth using), through to gay voice and why it exists. Throughout it all, WORDY offers up, in a non-judgmental way, how readers can embrace our so-called flaws and verbally smash the patriarchy.
Amanda Montell is a 25-year-old linguistics scholar from Baltimore, Maryland. She is the features editor at the online beauty and health magazine Byrdie and has also written for Marie Claire, Woman's Day, The Rumpus, and Time Out Magazine. She's worked for Jill Soloway as a speechwriter and launched the web series "The Dirty Word," on Soloway's site, WifeyTV. The show has been featured online in Glamour, Bustle, HelloGiggles, Bust Magazine, Thought Catalog, and more. Amanda graduated magna cum laude with a degree in linguistics from NYU and currently lives in Los Angeles.

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Information

Publisher
Nero
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781760640958
eBook ISBN
9781743820957
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 0: meet sociolinguistics: what all the cool feminists are talking about
  7. Chapter 1: slutty skank hoes and nasty dykes: a comprehensive list of gendered insults i Hate (but also kind of love?)
  8. Chapter 2: wait … what does the word “woman” mean anyway?: plus other questions of sex, gender, and the language behind them
  9. Chapter 3: “mm-hmm, girl, you’re right”: how women talk to each other when dudes aren’t around
  10. Chapter 4: women didn’t ruin the english language—they, like, invented it
  11. Chapter 5: how to embarrass the shit out of people who try to correct your grammar
  12. Chapter 6: how to confuse a catcaller (and other ways to verbally smash the patriarchy)
  13. Chapter 7: fuck it: an ode to cursing while female
  14. Chapter 8: “cackling” clinton and “sexy” scarjo: the struggle of being a woman in public
  15. Chapter 9: time to make this book just a little bit gayer
  16. Chapter 10: cyclops, panty puppet, bald-headed bastard (and 100+ other things to call your genitalia)
  17. Chapter 11: so … in one thousand years, will women rule the english language?
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. About the Author
  20. Back Cover