Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and passion of observations that go beyond books to boudoirs and boardrooms. Herrmann charges that language is the fundamental means by which women are oppressed. Their education forces them to parrot masculine discourse, often gets them dismissed as chatterboxes, and ...
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Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and passion of observations that go beyond books to boudoirs and boardrooms. Herrmann charges that language is the fundamental means by which women are oppressed. Their education forces them to parrot masculine discourse, often gets them dismissed as chatterboxes, and silences their real lives. Women who desire to express themselves creatively are obliged to "steal" language or to invent one of their own. Based on readings of major texts in literature, philosophy, and the social sciences, The Tongue Snatchers illuminates how men and women differ in their experiences of words, work, space, time, love, and sexuality.
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Very Good. 1989 1st edition, Fine-minus/Fine-minus DJ in Mylar, clean & bright, dustjacket has only very light shelfwear-in new Mylar with price intact, firm corners, no markings found, not a remainder, a nice copy.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0803223463. Translated from the French and with an introduction and notes by Nancy Kline. First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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1989 University of Nebraska. ISBN 0-8032-2346-3. English translation of French work published in 1976. Octavo, 146pp., hardcover. Fine (very faint residue of price tags on front end papers) in Good DJ (dj by Ben Shahn). (dj has no tears and no chips, just some wrinkling and creases and it is lightly rubbed. price not clipped. )
