Sexist language :a modern philosophical analysis /edited by Mary Vetterling-Braggin.
Description
Male chauvinism : a conceptual analysis /Marilyn Frye --Sexist language and sexism /Sara Shute --Sexist speech : two basic questions /Patrick Grim --Language and woman's place (excerpts) /Robin Lakoff --Linguistics and feminism /Virginia Valian --Lakoff on language and women /Jacqueline Fortunata --The myth of the neutral "man" /Janice Moulton --The hidden joke : generic uses of masculine terminology /Carolyn Korsmeyer --Feminist linguistics in philosophy /Eleanor Kuykendall --Gender-neutral terms /Jane Duran --Degenderization /Elizabeth Lane Beardsley --"Pricks" and "chicks" : a plea for "persons" /Robert Baker --Sex and reference /Janice Moulton --How words hurt : attitudes, metaphor and oppression /Stephanie Ross --Vs. Ms. /Michael Levin --Against "Vs. Ms." /L. M. Purdy --Beyond the miserable vision of "Vs. Ms." /Alan Soble --Sexism and racism : some conceptual differences /Laurence Thomas --Thomas on sexism /B. C. Postow --A note on the ethics of theories of truth /Patrick Grim --A note on logical truth and non-sexist semantics /A. J. Stenner --Reference and truth : the case of sexist and racist utterances /Kriste Taylor.
329 pages ;22 cm
Book Details
Place Published
City
Totowa, N.J.
Date Published
1981
Publication Subjects
Sexism in language.
Feminism.
Racism in language.
Truth.