The Articulation of Difference: Imagining "Women's Language" between 1650 and the Present

This dissertation is an archaeology of so-called Weibersprache. While the concept of feminine language is typically associated with 1970s feminist theory, this study shows that there was a diverse history of conceptualizing “women’s language” prior to this period. I begin with seventeenth-century et...

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Main Author: Salvo, Sophie Alexander
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BV7TZW