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Author Frank, Francine Wattman, 1931-

Title Language, gender, and professional writing : theoretical approaches and guidelines for nonsexist usage / Francine Wattman Frank and Paula A. Treichler ; with contributions by H. Lee Gershuny, Sally McConnell-Ginet, and Susan J. Wolfe
Published New York : Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession, Modern Language Association of America, [1989]
©1989

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Description viii, 341 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction : scholarship, feminism, and language change / Paula A. Treichler and Francine Wattman Frank -- The sexual (re)production of meaning : a discourse-based theory / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- From discourse to dictionary : how sexist meanings are authorized / Paula A. Treichler -- The reconstruction of word meanings : a review of the scholarship / Susan J. Wolfe -- English handbooks 1979-85 : case studies in sexist and nonsexist usage / H. Lee Gershuny -- Language planning, language reform, and language change : a review of guidelines for nonsexist usage / Francine Wattman Frank
Analysis English language
Key item
Overseas item
Sexism
Writing
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [281]-322
Subject Authorship.
English language -- Gender.
English language -- Usage.
Nonsexist language.
Sexism in language.
Author Treichler, Paula A.
Modern Language Association of America. Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession.
LC no. 88038161
ISBN 0873521781 (hard)
087352179X (paperback)