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A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.
"I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide."—Jill SolowayThe word bitch conjures many images for many people, but is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn't refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy—which simply meant "housewife"—or slut, which meant "untidy" and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history's many English slurs hurled at women. Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and staff features editor at online...]]> Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:38:42 +0200