Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan by Miyako Inoue

Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan

Miyako Inoue

340 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced

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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's ...

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