Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

304 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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A brash, enlightening and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.English is scattered with perfectly innocuous words that have devolved into insults hurled at women. The word “bitch” originally meant male o...

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