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In this vitally important and engaging text, leading feminist linguist, Deborah Cameron, explores the role of language and discourse in perpetuating sexism and misogyny in the twenty-first century.

In this vitally important and engaging text, leading feminist linguist, Deborah Cameron, explores the role of language and discourse in perpetuating sexism and misogyny in the twenty-first century.

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Originally published in 1992. The product of dialogue between researchers from anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and linguistics, this book discusses the possibilities of developing the research process in social science to benefit the subjects as well as researcher.

Beneath the nonstop cacophony of voices across social media, online forums, and news outlets lie the stubborn facts at the heart of the everyday struggles of women today: more than a third of single moms live in poverty, the United States sees more maternal deaths than anywhere else in the developed world, one in five women will be raped in her lifetime, and women still make eighty cents for every dollar earned by a man. Between these brutal s...

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Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves, it also discusses the way gender - and its relationship to language - was taken ...

Trade paperback. This concise, authoritative and lively introduction to feminism analyses the philosophical and historical precedents of feminist ideas in relation to the movement's development and contemporary diversity.

Why has language been such a central issue in 20th-century feminist politics? This work serves as both a guide to the major debates and directions in current feminist thinking about language and a digest of the history of 20th-century feminist ideas about language.

Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that it should be deeply implicated in the design, production, and use of buildings. Building legislation, design guides, competition and other briefs, architectural criticism, teaching and scholarly material, and the media all produce their characteristic texts. The authors use texts about such proj...

Brings together material from the fields of anthropology, communication studies, linguistics, medicine and psychology in an examination of the role of sexuality in written and spoken language. Organized into thematic sections, this book addresses the use of language by individuals to present themselves as sexual and gendered subjects.

This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a new foreword and substantial new chapter, bringing this seminal text up to date. In 'Verbal Hygiene', Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use.

A one-volume, thematically arranged collection of the major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron's highly respected responses to them.

Presents a selection of Deborah Cameron's work on language, gender, and sex. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron's responses to these. It is useful for students and teachers on a variety of courses including English Language and Linguistics, and gender studies.

In this hugely readable account Cameron cuts her way through the hype to debunk the myths about language and the sexes that have been propagated in recent popular writing. Drawing on more than 30 years of scientific research in the field of language and gender studies, she explains what the findings really say about men and women and the way they communicate. Essential reading for inhabitants of other planets.

It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly. `Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developmen...

An exemplary textbook. Making even the most complex ideas fully accessible, it is grounded in an extensive literature, filled with engaging examples, and offers ample suggestions for independent research. It's been a key text in my classes for over a decade and, as fresh and relevant as ever, will continue to buttress my graduate seminars and undergraduate courses alike." - Professor Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington Comprehensive, p...

It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly. `Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developmen...

Feminism, as a movement for social change, has always recognized the significance of language in both theory and practice. In the new feminist scholarship of the past two decades, theories about language have played an important part in attempts to understand and transform women's lives. "Feminism and Linguistic Theory" is a critical but comprehensive and accessbile introduction to recent work in this area. It ranges over a wide and varied fie...

This reissue will include a new foreword and an afterword which will address the original need for the book and developments which have occurred since publishing the book.