- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Rivers Oram Press/Pandora List; 4Rev Ed edition (9 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0863584012
- ISBN-13: 978-0863584015
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This edition of this feminist study of language offers clear analysis of the ways in which our language is "man-made", of all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which the masculine is asserted as the norm, while feminine experience is muted and pushed to the margins of life and language.
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Dale Spender's Man Made Language is a radical feminist analysis of language published in 1980. This is a highly influential text for the women's movement as a whole and specifically for the discipline of women's studies. Spender articulates a theory of the male control over the English language and the way that women have been systematically silenced through the forms of language, the conventions of male and female speech, the exclusion of women from print culture and the patriarchal structures at the heart of the gatekeeping process.
For A-level English Language students this is a good way into one of the key areas of language and gender theory and as such is highly recommended by teachers.
For A-level English Language students this is a good way into one of the key areas of language and gender theory and as such is highly recommended by teachers.
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Along with such titles as Robin Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place or Deborah Cameron's Feminism and Linguistic Theory, this book is on the essential reading list of students of language/sex research. Her claim is rather bold: "English language is "literally" man made and it's been in male control since the beginning." Its uncompromising adherence to the simple thesis, to the extent of being crude, makes it comparable to one of the classics in the women in literature studies, that is, Kate Millet's Sexual Politics: both are constrained in their approach and methodology, yet both are thought provoking and read well.
Although there are some unconvincing claims even to people with no linguistic training, Man Made Languae will certainly raise the awareness about how language can be sexist by those who intend to keep it that way. One of the sexist rules of English Spender examines is 'semantic derogation of women', through which any terms related to women eventually go through a change in meaning that makes them derogatory to women. There are many interesting examples, and unlike most of Ph. D. dissertations, it is readily accessible to non-specialists.
Although there are some unconvincing claims even to people with no linguistic training, Man Made Languae will certainly raise the awareness about how language can be sexist by those who intend to keep it that way. One of the sexist rules of English Spender examines is 'semantic derogation of women', through which any terms related to women eventually go through a change in meaning that makes them derogatory to women. There are many interesting examples, and unlike most of Ph. D. dissertations, it is readily accessible to non-specialists.
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